The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
I have used the various slax live cd's, which are based on the Slackware distro. The one thing I like about these is that they are pretty small, smaller than the knoppix cd's, and they do have different variants for some customized needs, such as the the server-based one. It seems that they have really differentiated the variants quite a bit since I used them last year. They now seem to have a sole console, server, the main-stay popcorn, kill-bill, and of course the standard. The different distributions seemed to be very nice. I used the popcorn and kill-bill ones last year because they did not have the others available. I have to say they are a very nice alternative to the knoppix cd's. These were first created to have something that was small and portable as opposed to the knoppix alternative, which can take up a full cd and takes a while to boot. If you want something real small, try looking for DSL, this is based off an earlier knoppix version and the DSL stands for **** Small Linux. These are about 50-60 mb in size. These do, of course, seem to be very much limited, but they boot up quite fast and are simple, afterall that's why the unix system was created.
I remember hearing about this distro awhile back and how great it was- I confess I still have not tried it but hope to get around to it. Knoppix is great and is what I currently use.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
