Anyone Know Of A Bare Minimum?

In response to Kelly Schwartz’s Linux Can Save Your Computer, Gnomie Tracy writes in with this question:

Knoppix is superb in the correct environment… only trouble is that many times the older systems I’m looking at do not meet the minimum requirements for the GUI in these Live CDs.

Wish someone would come up with one that would run just the bare minimum as far as a “help” disk that could run on 64MB of SDRAM?

Or, do you know of such a distro?

Vector Linux might be the answer you’re looking for. The minimum requirements, and I quote, “the minimum hardware requirements to run VectorLinux 4.0 are a 166 MHz Pentium class processor with 32 MB of RAM memory, and just 700 MB of hard disc space (*).

“To have a more comfortable experience with VectorLinux 4.0, we would recommend a 233 MHz (MMX) processor with 64 MB of memory as a minimum.”

Vector linux can both be installed to the hard drive as well as used as a live CD. However, when it comes to tools for system rescue, I am not sure how capable it is. Simply put, no live CD compares to Knoppix as far as system rescue is concerned.

Hope this helps! :-) [Johann De Freitas]