Distros of interest

[GekkoP]

If you're into Docker, here we go: https://github.com/gliderlabs/docker-alpine

[simgin]

^ Bloody hell, 5 MB o.O This is Pidsley territory. I have always liked Alpine :)
This project is so much in line with BBQ philosophy +1

Cheers Manu for the link.

simon

[franksinistra]

^^ yup, in one of their other interesting tutorial i found by random browsing earlier this year, they managed to squeeze the whole jdk to just a few dozen MB in docker image. Insane!

EDIT: scratch that, the actual jdk article in question was from atlassian dev-groups https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/20 ... ontainers/

[Theo]

AntiX MX-15 is available. Perhaps not the distro with lot's of CLI-goodies but for a XFCE distro I consider it as one of the better ones.
http://antix.mepis.org/index.php?title=Main_Page#News

[simgin]

^ Yup, I use MX as my work bloat machine, darn good.

[darry1966]

Slackel Fluxbox

[machinebacon]

^ is that actually LXDE with fluxbox as WM?

[darry1966]

You could be right it had a very LXDE type menu as well as the flubox one MB. I switched to the Salix version I'm going through a real Slackware stage.:)

P.S. The ISO was labelled as a fluxbox release.

[Theo]

It looks to me that it's fluxbox with fbpanel.

[machinebacon]

Oh yesh, fbpanel, the grandma of lxpanel -- to me they are all the same

[pidsley]

New siduction isos for the end of the old year.

http://news.siduction.org/2015/12/relea ... v-release/

linux-kernel 4.3, X-Server 1.17.3, and systemd 228.2. 64-bit only.

[machinebacon]

^ was about time that they add non-free contrib to the sources. No more 32 bit at siduction? One more reason to flip burgers here.

[siklopz]

there's always VSIDO. they're a bit like Fluxbox Crunchbang in Sid, with some experimental and Siduction programs pinned in apt.

if you're looking for a lightweight Debian Testing XFCE installer, i'd vote for Kali minimal, as one of the lightest. the desktop and thunar are probably the only graphical applications. not even a text editor beyond nano, last time i checked. you just change the repos to Testing, and update.

a more minimal approach is Debian Dog. it's set up to install on a partition or a USB drive. it's a minimal Debian (they have minimal JWM and Openbox/XFCE panel versions), and the GRUB menu allows you to choose systemd or sysvinit. it was developed by one of the puppy linux guys, but it's not puppy.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=99460

[simgin]

^ Sweet thanks, never checked Debian Dog out, thought it was pure Puppy (if that makes sense). Will download tonight.

Cheerio
Simon

[Theo]

^^ Thanks, that's a nice catch. Back in the day I used Puppy as a rescue-cd. I'm downloading it, and perhaps this might be a good replacement.

[siklopz]

i warn you guys. if i remember correctly, to install it properly, you have to put it on a usb...and then use the installer to install it properly to another usb. it's a bit convoluted, but it's an extremely lightweight Debian install. the JWM iso is something around 160 mb, with dillo and a couple of applications. check the release notes to be sure.

[dkeg]

Sorry, don't see the need to get a grilled burger when I already have a choice of many.

[darry1966]

I have used Debiandog it is adequate, not great.

[machinebacon]

https://subgraph.com/sgos/graph/index.en.html

[siklopz]

^ooohhh, shiny. my only concern is that all of that containerization, similar to qubes os, means it will probably only be available for 64 bit systems.