[PLUG] Any comments on SLAX?

[C W]

Yes, but Porteus is still maintained, & it is IMHO, a great distro.

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Richard Owlett <rowlett at pcnetinc.com>wrote:

> Richard Owlett wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> As I was writing above, Elcaset pointed out SLAX wAs no
> longer maintained :<
>
>
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