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Small Linux distribution fit for my friends?
I have several friends that need to use the U of M's UNIX labs for their
homework. I highly doubt that any of them like to use the labs (since
they would often have to be their for hours at a time). I've looked at
setting up X-Windows on some systems, but the free Win32 offerings are
just not very good... Would it be possible for me to create a Linux
distro that can fit in <100MB and still include these features? :
X-Windows
C development (probably only rudimentary..)
Scheme (The U uses scheme as a teaching language...)
Printing services (we gotta print out that homework, ya know..)
Network utilities (hmm.. is the router to the lab down?)
FTP client/daemon (transferring files back and forth to these
machines..)
Netscape (okay, not necessary, but it'd be nice..)
I've made a quick glance at ZipSlack -- a ~35MB Slackware distribution
without(?) X-Windows that can exist in a UMSDOS filesystem on a Zip Disk
or hard drive.
This looks to me like it would be a fairly good starting point
(although, I have to admit I think I'd rather deal with a RedHat-based
system... These guys would probably have much more luck with RPMs than
.tar.gz files... OTOH, they probably won't install _anything_)
Has anyone out here tried ZipSlack, or any UMSDOS-based Linux, for that
matter?
Thanks...
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