You may or may not have heard of Puppy linux, the 60mb Linux you boot from a CD. I've been playing around with it all weekend, and so far i like what i see.

Within its 60mb file size are several games (yippee), Mozilla internet browser, and everything you could need. it even auto-detects your hardware and attempts to assign drivers for it. (Though it keeps failing with my soundcard...)

It does place a file on your harddrive, and you can even devote a vfat partition to it, though it will work fine on any windows machine

several versions are available, such as "chubby puppy" which comes prebundled with Openoffice.org.

hmmmm, very interesting!

www.goosee.com/puppy/

What about Knoppix?

they mentioned that in the comparison section... i forget what they said though

personally,right now im lookign for a free junker PC to try this out on... one where i can devote an entire HD...

Sounds like a plan. Devote it to Blockland instead!

yeah, sure... i would be glad to... if you will get me high speed internet

sure, all you have to do is hook up to my router

ok... care to buy me the 1000+ miles of CAT-5 or CAT-6 cable?

Oh yeah, I have that in my basement...

Me too!
Seriously though, both alex and Kerm need to to get a cable modem...I'm trying to get myself a T1 line

any hispeeed connection, other than accerlerated dialup. All that is compression, and it really dosn't do much.

Dude...I just use my school's shared T3, all the bandwidth I'd ever want.

what about at your house, when you are not at school.

Ummm, we've gone through this b4...

maybe we have, but it doesn't ring a bell, oh well.

Yeah, well, I don't have internet at home, remember?

ok, I really don't remember (maybe it was discussed on the old board or before I became active on this one). Oh well though, I belive you.

It might have been on the old board then.

So how goes the puppy?

also Kerm, do relize that there was a 2 month period of inactivity on this site for me, were I forgot all about this. I came back though, and haven't left yet.

I don't remember that...