[wellylug] Linux for portable / laptop

[Phil Daintree]

I am a big fan of puppy linux... it is very low footprint - I think 
latest is just 120 ish Meg - but has most of what you need. It is (puppy 
5.25 is) ubuntu lucid binary compatible you can use ubuntu repository 
with it too so any software that you want - but you probably won't need 
to go there.
I made a LAMP archive (called .pet s in puppy speak) so you can play 
with web applications - I develop web-applications on it - see

http://www.weberp.org/PuppyLinux

Phil

On 28/06/11 16:54, Nathan Bentley wrote:
> Hi all. First time caller long time listener.
>
> Actually that’s not true, I just got here.
>
> Hey I want to run a distro on a roughly 3 year old low spec acer
> machine. I dunno what the specs are off the top of my head but it cost
> me 600 bucks in Australia from a retailer so thats the level I’m talking.
>
> I’m mostly interested in a nix that is touted for battery life, low
> consumption and quick booting. I’m normally a windows retard and
> replacing the Vista install on it that just seems to be getting worse
> and worse, which is a shame ‘cause I never really said anything bad
> about vista.
>
> I have an install of Xampp on it as it stands so I can demo websites on
> the windows machine, all this stuff is still standard in most linux
> distro’s right? Its been close enough to 10 years since I used Linux
> last and now I really don’t know much about the subject.
>
> Can anyone make a recommendation of the best distro, or a laptop
> specific version that I could try first off?
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
>
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Phil Daintree
Logic Works Ltd - +64 (0)275 567890
http://www.logicworks.co.nz