Best Distro for Laptops

[MudCrawLeR]

I currently have R.H. 7.0 installed on my laptop (Toshiba Satellite 110 CS). Everything is working fine except X is slow but that is to be expected from P100 with 24 MB of Ram and 1 MB Video ram.

My Problem is that is the installation took 450 MB of HD space. (That was the minimum I could get after removing programs I don't need) The programs I needed to have are Gnome and Netscape and I guess networking capabilities. I just don't see why 450 MB is needed for that. Win95 installs less 100 MB and when you add Netscape, it is still under 200MB. I am thinking this is a RH problem. So are there distro that can take the least amount of space on my HD ,run the programs that I need and installs through ftp.

Any help? Comments? Flames?

[configure]

Are you sure that you have removed all the programs that you need? Beside you should compare it with the amount of hardisk it took to have a Win98SE system not Win95 http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

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[tofubandit]

hi mudcrawler,

there are some really small distros out there - as small as you like. if you're only wanting a nice point and click desktop and netscape then have a look at some of the smaller distros - there are lots of lists out there: http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/1266/1/ or
http://www.justlinux.com/Distributions/ http://linux-directory.com/links/pages/Distributions/

I've not tried i, but have a look at http://www.ibiblio.org/peanut/ it promises to be 150mb installed and has kde1.12 and blackbox

one thing to consider tho' is using something small like ICE or BlackBox instead of Gnome. Not as pretty i'll admit, but they do the job and you can still use netscape.

good luck!

tofubandit.

[Shad]

Or try http://www.ibiblio.org/vectorlinux

It has Apache, Netscape, IceWM and plenty more.

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[MudCrawLeR]

Thanks for all the responses. I will try to give Peanut Linux a try. Wierd that I have been using Linux for 3 1/2 yrs and have only heard of Vector and Peanut Linux. I guess Redhat has spoiled me. Thanks again guys.