[Xastir] Re: Xastir LSB - PCLinuxOS TinyMe

[Curt, WE7U]

On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Lee Bengston wrote:

> Thanks, Tony - I didn't bother to try to compile from source, either,
> given what appeared to be scant repositories.  I installed TinyMe
> under VMware, and it seems quite happy in that environment.  I'm in it
> right now using the Opera browser.  The attraction is that the TinyMe
> virtual machine compressed is less than 400MB, which is significantly
> smaller than what we normally see on a more standard distro like
> Xubuntu.  Combine that with a lower memory requirement, and it could
> be a decent alternative for PC's that have less memory and hard drive
> space to allocate to a virtual machine.

My favorite for tinier-than-thou Linux distributions was the
"Zipslack" directory of the Slackware distribution.  I could install
that, which took less than 100MB, then add a few from the "X" series
to give me X11, and I was in business...

The ZipSlack distribution was originally designed to fit on a 100MB
Zipdisk, and had no graphics, but had a full development
environment.  Add X11 to that and you've got enough to run Xastir.
I don't know if there's still a Zipslack directory in Slackware, but
if there is, that might be a good way to go.

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