alt Hacker NewsI've used many of these small Linux distros. I used to have Tiny Core in a VM for different things.
I also like SliTaz: http://slitaz.org/en, and Slax too: https://www.slax.org/
Oh and puppy Linux, which I could never get into but was good for live CDs: https://puppylinux-woof-ce.github.io/
And there's also Alpine too.
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Puppy was the first Linux distro I ever tried since it was such a small download (250ish MB) and I had limited bandwidth. Good memories.
Wondering if it would be a good idea to setup a VM with this. Setup remote connection, and intellij. Just have a script to clone it for a new project and connect from anywhere using a remote app.
It will increase the size of the VM but the template would be smaller than a full blown OS
Aside from dev containers, what are other options? I'm not able to run intellij on my laptop, is not an option
I use Nvim to ssh into my computer to work, which is fine. But really miss the full capacity of intellij
> I also like SliTaz
thank you for this reminder! I had completely forgotten about SliTaz, looks like I need to check it out again!
> puppy Linux, which I could never get into
In what way? Do you mean you didn't get the chance to use it much, or something about it you couldn't abide?
Wow, Slax is still around and supports Debian now too? Thanks for sharing.
wondering what's your typical usage for those small distros?
I tried a handful of small distros in order to give new life to an old laptop with an AMD C-50 and 2GB of RAM.
The most responsive one, unexpectedly, was Raspberry Pi OS.