Mini Distro Round-Up

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Mini Distro Round-Up

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Submitted by srlinuxx on Mon, 04/04/2005 - 02:11. Reviews
I went to distrowatch and looked for the 5 smallest distros I could find. I found my old pal Damn Small Linux, new comers Puppy Linux, Feather Linux, BeatrIX, and Sam.

I sampled each of those listed above and will share my thoughts and screenshots of them with you. I also thought to make it more fair, I'd outline and define some criteria for them to meet. Not scientific, but I chose five areas that I considered important in which a mini distro should excel. Each distro has the opportunity to earn 5 points for each of the 5 areas. Then I will divide that total by 5 to get their final score of between 1 and 5 points.

Size:
The smallest in the lot was 50mb, so that was my starting point. In my tests and for the purposes of this article, smaller is better.


Ease of Use:
Is it easy to boot up and get into a gui? Are the tools and applications readily available and easy to find, and easy to use?


Looks:
Simply put, how pleasing is it to the eye?


Useful:
Are the apps included useful and are they useful to a majority of users? Is there something included to complete most any basic task? This area is most simply put, how useful is the distro?


Stability and Functionality:
Is the distro stable and are the applications stable? Do they function as designed and complete their tasks?



Distro Size Ease Looks Useful Stab/Funct total/5

Damn Small 5 4 3 4 5 4.2
Puppy 5 3 3 4 5 4
Feather 4 4 5 4 5 4.4
BeatrIX 3 4 2 3 4 3.2
Sam 2 3 3 2 0 2
Luit 5 3 3 3 4 3.8





In conclusion, I still like damn small linux the best although puppy linux is a very close second. Seems the points favor feather linux, and it was indeed the prettiest. Any of these three can fill the bill for about any rescue or convenient take along purpose you might have. Beatrix is too big and heavy for no more than it offers and Sam, well, my mama said if you can't say anything nice...

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