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What's a good distro that fits comfortably in a 1 GB flashdrive?

Barfo

Barfo

Lifer
That is not Puppy?

Preferably modern and small enough that I can install a few apps and customize it.
 
low space comes with low computing power?


I think then Lubuntu should work fine.


Do you have at least 4GB of Ram? Do you have a fast internet connection?


If both answers are positive then you should think about loading extra data from the internet in the ram (much like a live cd)
 
The issue is the "comfortable 1gb" requirement. Corners have to be cut somewhere. I like SliTaz for a small distro. You could also try TinyMe, but I don't have personal experience with that. If you're willing to put some work in it, a Debian net install should give you a small O/S with exactly what you want.
 
ncalipari said:
low space comes with low computing power?


I think then Lubuntu should work fine.


Do you have at least 4GB of Ram? Do you have a fast internet connection?


If both answers are positive then you should think about loading extra data from the internet in the ram (much like a live cd)
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It's a laptop with a 2 GHZ Core 2 and 2 GB RAM, not too shabby for Linux, and I have an ok DSL connection, so the issue is storage space, not computing power. The thing is I found the flashdrive and it's sitting unused so I thought I'd put a distro in it just to fiddle with. I already have Linux Mint and Windows 7 installed to the Hard Drive and they work fine.
I'll see how Lubuntu fares over the weekend.
 
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lxskllr said:
The issue is the "comfortable 1gb" requirement. Corners have to be cut somewhere. I like SliTaz for a small distro. You could also try TinyMe, but I don't have personal experience with that. If you're willing to put some work in it, a Debian net install should give you a small O/S with exactly what you want.
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Yeah, the comfortable 1 GB was because I installed the latest Ubuntu in it and it ran well, but then I tried to install vlc and it ran out of space. I'll try the distros you recommended in the order you listed them 😀
 
Damn Small Linux isn't Puppy and fits on a 128mb drive supposedly, although 512mb is recommended. 1gb would be more than enough. I've only used it for about 30 seconds just to see if the install on a flash drive worked, for some reason networking didn't work and that was as far as I got.
 
I have tried a few pendrive OS and I really like Puppy Linux. I customized it in a 4GB thumbdrive but I think a 1GB thumbdrive would work just fine with it if you set the space where you store your data according to the size you want. Tried SLAX as well but I keep going back to Puppy.
 
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