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Re: Best mini distro, fully working - Founded [ SOLVED ],

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Old thread.
Topic still relavent, though.

My fav 'small' distro was Lubuntu.
Fairly complete. Can be filled up with Ubuntu apps, libs. Or even stripped smaller.
Ran very well on *really* old hardware.

After moving to qt based apps and dropping the old hardware focus - it became a problem. Lots of missing functionality.
Now, with Wayland here - but not - even more bits of functionality are missing for all Linux distros.
For example, with the shifted focus of the compositors and renderers, a lot of the tools that gave access to the desktop windows just don't work, even in xWayland.

Looking for another distro has been hard.

My dream:

Only the core of Linux: NO security features at all. With the option to even not have multiple users. How small and fast would that be?
Security would be my problem: behind firewalls in *MY* net as I allow.
I know: pretty much all services/apps have a userspace that segregates and permits everything. So much old plumbing to pull out.

Just a dream of mine.

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Re: Best mini distro, fully working - Founded [ SOLVED ],

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Hi david

Yes i tried Lubuntu ,then Runtu ...Ubuntu derivatives (or Debian)
not bad but not as fast as i expected even on XP machines ..but work stable
my point is how anyone here or maybe elsewhere dont make small zippy distro with preinstalled FreeBasic.
I can bet that there are people (i think here too) which know how to do that ,
Linux distro forkers on youtube are oriented to fancy stuff and programs ,very rare we can see something
about programming .

for example author of this one Minix provide FB package but why he dont prebuilt it in distro.
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For example the guy who posted here called petan talking how he made FB working in PUppy Wary ok
why he not provide any link for download ,,,puppy is not big too and work well
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Re: Best mini distro, fully working - Founded [ SOLVED ],

Post by aurelVZAB »

well
there is not real interest in a puppy forum but i get some information about .
First i will make bootable USB with old Saluki Puppy rc023..this one work out of box
then i will try add freebasic inside that usb unpacking into root..one guy tell me that
should work ..so i will see if he have a right!
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