[TriLUG] Looking for a small Linux

[Jason S. Evans]

I could be persuaded to run Gentoo.  However, compiling everything would
be ungodly slow.  Is there anyway to have may main PC (AMD64 X2 2Gig Ram)
compile the software and then automagically install it to the laptop to
cut down on install time?

Jason

> Jason S. Evans wrote:
>> I've got an older laptop that I've been using since I can't afford a new
>> one, and I'm looking for a new Linux to put on it, though I think my
>> choices are few.  Since there are a multitude of distros out there, I'm
>> hoping there's one out there that I haven't tried.
>>
>> The laptop is a P3 Thinkpad A20m with a 40G hdd and 256M ram running at
>> 700Mhz.  I'm currently dual booting XP since I can't VPN into work on
>> Linux and Vector Linux which is based on Slackware.  I've tried both
>> Puppy
>> and DSL (and DSL-N) on this laptop and they perform wonderfully, but
>> they
>> are both really darn limited in what they can do.  I'm looking for a
>> distro that has wifi drivers built in, GCC and some kind of IDE like
>> Anjuta or Geany because I'm trying to learn C and/or C++, and JRE or at
>> least the ability to manually install JRE..  I'm not that picky, really.
>> Vector Linux has all of this stuff, but it's fairly slow and Slackware
>> doesn't have gnome libraries to install a lot of software that I would
>> like to use like Anjuta or Codeblocks.  Any ideas?
>
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