lnx-bbc.com/). I know of several Linux user groups that have tailored
their own bootable business card projects from the lnx-bbc.org BBC project to hand out to represent
their groups. Many bootable Linux distributions for media with capacity that is larger than
that of a business-card-size CD tend to be based on KNOPPIX.
Two examples of tiny desktop Linux distributions are Damn Small Linux and Puppy Linux.
Damn Small Linux
If you want your desktop Linux distribution to fit in your wallet, Damn Small Linux is one of your
best choices. Damn Small is one of the first distributions based on KNOPPIX to fit on a bootable
business card (about 48MB currently).
Damn Small Linux is included on the CD that comes with this book. You can use it as
described in Appendix A.
With KNOPPIX inside, you have many of the features you get with KNOPPIX: excellent hardware
detection and bootup to a desktop with network connectivity (provided you have an Ethernet connection
with DHCP). Many features specific to Damn Small, however, are there to let you get a workable
desktop system in a small medium (mini-CD) and low RAM. Figure 19-3 shows an example of
the DSL desktop.
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FIGURE 19-3
Damn Small Linux fits a lot of features in under 50MB.
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