A "green" distro of Ubuntu?

[Ric Moore]

On Sat, 2011-07-02 at 14:45 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: 
> Avi wrote:
> > Richard Owlett wrote:
> >> No indication that it's Debian based or compatible.
> >
> > Where did you look?
> NOT sure MEA CULPA MEA CULPA
> > Its Debian heritage is mentioned on the front page.
> >
> > What do you mean by Debian compatible, though?
> 
> Two things:
>    1. look and feel - admitedly vague terms
>    2. using "Debian" update/dependency protocols
>       {I've read enough to I _suspect_ they would be preferable
>        to RPM equivalents}
>   >Just DFSG friendly?
> 
> And "DFSG" means what? ????
> 
> > You're not going to get below 50MB if you want to have the whole of
> > dpkg as well as the rest of the OS.
> 
> And "dpkg" means what? ????
> 
> > http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/welcome.html
> >> 50 MB is not really small.
> >
> > Nowadays, I'm afraid it is. You'd perhaps be best off looking at one of
> > the DIY distros - something like LFS[0]?
> >
> > What sort of size are you aiming at?
> > http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/welcome.html
> 
> W-E-L-L-L-L
>    Tiny Core Linux
>      { http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/welcome.html
>      claims fully functional at ~10 MB }
> 
> IIRC Win 3.1 had a competitor ~1979 which ran ontop of MS-DOS.

That would be Geoworks. Ran like a charm, too. I got my copy for free by
signing up with AOL. If I could hand my users $300 a month bills, I'd
give away Lotus Suite. It seems the heirs are hell bent on trying to
make a buck off of that dinosaur. I wrote them many moons ago suggesting
they open-source it. It would run like a scalded ape if it could be
ported to Linux, I figured. They wrote back and said they STILL sell
copies for old iron to schools. Tax Payers = Schmucks. 

Update, they sold it to an outfit named Breadbox.
http://www.breadbox.com/geos.asp
http://toastytech.com/guis/bbe.html

It's still for sale, but the site's E-Store is broken. I think about
$69. Damn thing works, too. It wouldn't know how to act on a Pentium II.
I ran it on a 386. :) Ric


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