vm1990 (OP)
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July 01, 2013, 08:35:05 PM |
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right so i want a small version of Linux anyone recommend a good one??
i want it to be able to boot in Oracle VM virtualBox
must have the option to encrypt the harddrive
must have the GUI (still getting use to linux so the gui is essential
must work with low 1Ghz single cores (intel)
iv tried ubuntu but its a bit big about 8GB
iv tried windows xp but it makes the virtual computer to big if i want to encrypt the harddrive
im hoping to find one around 2GB fully installed non of this running off a CD stuff
iv read a few posts but there a fair long list so im just asking for the top 2 or 3 recommendations from you guys
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July 01, 2013, 08:43:52 PM |
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not sure if youve heard about it but there is a stripped down version of windows xp out their somewhere, ill see if i can find a link for you.
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Este Nuno
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July 01, 2013, 08:49:59 PM |
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Hmm, there are lots of distros that fit your requirements.
Damn Small Linux is like 50 mb if you wanna get really tiny.
But realistically I think Puppy Linux sounds like it would work for you.
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July 01, 2013, 08:57:54 PM |
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http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=puppy"Puppy Linux is yet another Linux distribution. What's different here is that Puppy is extraordinarily small, yet quite full-featured. Puppy boots into a ramdisk and, unlike live CD distributions that have to keep pulling stuff off the CD, it loads into RAM. This means that all applications start in the blink of an eye and respond to user input instantly. Puppy Linux has the ability to boot off a flash card or any USB memory device, CDROM, Zip disk or LS/120/240 Superdisk, floppy disks, internal hard drive. It can even use a multisession formatted CD-RW/DVD-RW to save everything back to the CD/DVD with no hard drive required at all."
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July 01, 2013, 10:35:54 PM |
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right so i want a small version of Linux anyone recommend a good one??
i want it to be able to boot in Oracle VM virtualBox
must have the option to encrypt the harddrive
must have the GUI (still getting use to linux so the gui is essential
must work with low 1Ghz single cores (intel)
iv tried ubuntu but its a bit big about 8GB
iv tried windows xp but it makes the virtual computer to big if i want to encrypt the harddrive
im hoping to find one around 2GB fully installed non of this running off a CD stuff
iv read a few posts but there a fair long list so im just asking for the top 2 or 3 recommendations from you guys
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vm1990 (OP)
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July 01, 2013, 11:05:12 PM |
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not sure if youve heard about it but there is a stripped down version of windows xp out their somewhere, ill see if i can find a link for you.
iv heard an used it windows xp is pretty small and its the fall back solution but my big problems with it ate it uses a touch to much cpu and resorces and it dosnt have embedded encryption like linux the encryption is pretty important and the only reall way to do it in xp is encrypt the drive which makes the virtual drive its on much bigger thanks for the suggestion though |
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Mike Christ
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July 01, 2013, 11:53:09 PM |
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Lubuntu's pretty snappy on older PCs. There's also JoliOS, but it's more of a watered down Linux if you ask me, and in my tests, it wasn't quite as fast as more popular lightweight Linux distros. You can try CrunchBang if you want something more minimalist, but I wouldn't recommend it if you don't know your way around Linux yet.
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infested999
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July 02, 2013, 12:57:15 PM |
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If you're going to try CrunchBang you might as well use ArchBang, it has much better package management.
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July 03, 2013, 09:25:07 AM |
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Lubuntu, damn small linux
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July 03, 2013, 10:01:19 AM |
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PCLinuxOS should fit on 2 GB if you keep it slim (e.g. with LXDE). It's a (relatively) newbie-friendly rolling-release distro, but not a "mini-linux".
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July 03, 2013, 10:49:33 AM |
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I recommend Linux Mint
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Este Nuno
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July 04, 2013, 11:51:16 AM |
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http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=puppy"Puppy Linux is yet another Linux distribution. What's different here is that Puppy is extraordinarily small, yet quite full-featured. Puppy boots into a ramdisk and, unlike live CD distributions that have to keep pulling stuff off the CD, it loads into RAM. This means that all applications start in the blink of an eye and respond to user input instantly. Puppy Linux has the ability to boot off a flash card or any USB memory device, CDROM, Zip disk or LS/120/240 Superdisk, floppy disks, internal hard drive. It can even use a multisession formatted CD-RW/DVD-RW to save everything back to the CD/DVD with no hard drive required at all." You can just install it regularly as well as far as I know. |
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July 05, 2013, 07:15:41 PM |
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right so i want a small version of Linux anyone recommend a good one??
i want it to be able to boot in Oracle VM virtualBox
must have the option to encrypt the harddrive
must have the GUI (still getting use to linux so the gui is essential
must work with low 1Ghz single cores (intel)
iv tried ubuntu but its a bit big about 8GB
iv tried windows xp but it makes the virtual computer to big if i want to encrypt the harddrive
im hoping to find one around 2GB fully installed non of this running off a CD stuff
iv read a few posts but there a fair long list so im just asking for the top 2 or 3 recommendations from you guys
ArchBang Something about your forum avatar made me think you were going to suggest Xubuntu. |
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vm1990 (OP)
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July 06, 2013, 11:25:50 AM |
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haha well thanks for all the suggestions im slowly goijng through them 1 by 1
im still a noob at linux, never really took interest in it, but im getting there and really love the marketplaces which make things so much easier
iv had problems with a few of the linux versions not booting properly due to the way im installing them and the hardware im using (virtual machine inside a virtual machine) which apparently isnt possible XD
i think for the time being im going to stick with puppy linux i tried 3 different versions and only got 1 to work correctly
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