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Originally Posted by Dngrsone
I haven't gone the SSD route myself yet... I moved over to laptops almost ten years ago and have stopped building my own computers.
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You really ought to look at it.
My current desktop is is a refurb Dell product. My prior one was built from components. These days, refurb packaged systems are good enough to eliminate a lot of the need to roll your own, unless you're a hard core gamer.
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Damn Small Linux was a favorite minimal OS that I used to use, Nowadays, I carry Puppy around on my thumb-drive, though I haven't booted it in a while...
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DSL ran into a wall a while back. A design spec was an ISO that would not get larger than 50MB. It finally reached a point where there was nothing more that could be crammed into an ISO that size, even with content choices based on small size.
I have Puppy on an older machine. It works, but it's quirky. I began on *nix with AT&T Unix System V a couple of decades ago, and I've been an admin on multi-user Unix and Linux machines. As someone who has spent the odd hour locking down machines so users
can't get root, Puppy's "You always run as root" approach gives me hives.
For something I'd boot off a flash drive these days, I'd probably look at Tiny Core Linux.
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Dennis