[PLUG] Any comments on SLAX?

[Richard Owlett]

Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Oct 2011, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
>> On a language related forum I asked for recommendation of a small distro
>> that would be attractive to users of that forum. Slackware was one
>> recommended, though I'd hardly call it small ;/ A Google search then gave
>> SLAX as being Slackware based.
>
>     Slackware can be as thin as you want. When you install it you can select
> the packages to install. It supports older hardware well, too.
>
> Rich
>

Well, to paraphrase "Bard upon Avon":
   To acquire thinly or install thinly, THAT is the question.
   {I've got a English professor groaning very loudly ;}

I was irritated by the excessive size of Debian/Ubuntu Live 
Distros at ~1 600+ MB CD. store.slackware.com shows 
Slackware as a *6 CD* set.

Now I have to admit that if I went the Debian and/or Ubuntu 
route, I might ask how much of the respective repositories 
would be available on CD. I *AM* on dial-up :)

THAT was the attraction of SLAX - the _apparent_ opportunity 
to ONLY download what I would use. Having just spent ~1 hour 
browsing the SLAX website, I'm not so certain of that reality.