China subsidizing Linux

[Samuel Thurston, III]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Scott <sclewin at sgaming.ca> wrote:
>
>> I tried Puppy Linux recently and love it.  I love how Puppy Linux saves
>> everything to RAM so the whole operating systems runs amazing fast.

> I think a lot of the world would be able to use and benefit from a
> very very cut-down Ubuntu or Debian that required the same level of
> system spec as Puppy, but with proper installability, upgradability
> and security. Several projects have tried, but ultimately didn't
> attract enough support to fly:
>
> http://u-lite.org/
>
> http://rule-project.org/ - now essentially dead, they recommend U-Lite.
>

Damn Small Linux is a nice contender in this category, also.  Not sure
how it stacks up by spec but i know it ran brilliantly on some old
hardware i tried it on 3 odd years ago.