Update On Manjero, Mint and Slakware
1. Slakware is bit old and only install and I did not try. If I had an external drive I would have tried it.
With the Image writer its writes a bootable image about 4GB and it boots for Installation and I did not want to try it thinking it might erase my hard disk with 3 distributions.
I have done these type of mistake even recently!
Slakware is for hardened Linux guy or girl.
It's live derivative Absolute Linux, there were no torrent peers except one. However, I would try again Absolute and see what is available in Slackware.
It has written 80% and it would boot in about 10 minutes. Absolute Linux boots but it login panel ask for a user (not root) and password but won't mount the Live System.
I was just wasting my time.
2. Manjaro (arch Based) was a pain with 4GB of install software which I tried on a MultiSystem USB stick.
Its a pain to install even Abiword.
I look for three or four things.
First think WiFi Connection
Abiword is number2
VLC is number3
I also look for Gparted for "on the go" partitioning.
FireFox is my standard which is always available with Linux Distributions.
My you, Puppy Linux has all these in under 500MB!
With Debian Live DVD and Ubuntu I get these things breezily.
Emmabantus has everything including Scribus, Inkscape and Blender but its Debian 12.4.0 version won't write to a Boot USB.
My advice for the developer is very simply, instead of having one large file develop several squashfs files
1. For 712MB CD version.
2. DVD Version Under 1.5GB.
3. If you wish Big Daddy Version of any size.
Fedora and SuSe have large but very old Iso files NOT worth not testing.
I have got 400MB downloaded from 2.5GB Absolute64Live Current Iso.
Only one peer.
Mind You it very simple to download a Puppy image and test.
Knoppix has gone dormant but it has enormous amount of software.
