[Tutor] Python Linux Distro Anyone

[Amadeo Bellotti]

Dave I looked at LAMP it really didn't have everything I need well more like
want. I was thinking instead of Vi or emacs have a text editor written in
python which would save a lot of space. Instead of lynx have one in python.

On 11/29/06, Python <python at venix.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 22:45 -0500, Amadeo Bellotti wrote:
> > I was thinking it would be really nice if i could make a Pocket Linux
> > distro that of course fits on one or two floppies (outdated I no but
> > still are amazing) thats just the Linux kernel, bash, and python. with
> > of course a lot of tiny scripts to do daily business and/or recovery.
>
> You might want to look at puppyOS.
> http://www.puppyos.net/
> It is designed to boot from USB memory and provides a small footprint
> OS.
>
> http://www.puppyos.net/pfs/
> Describes how to build puppy from scratch (pfs) which would allow you to
> build your own tiny version.
>
> >  We could have a mail client, a text reader/editor, text based web
> > browser, all in python. Of Course this will be a lot of work and it
> > would be neat if the whole user group pitched in. so what I'm
> > basically asking is that if you are interested email me and ill give
> > you some detail.
>
> Shooting for a floppy disk based distribution is too much pain with too
> little gain for me.  The puppy approach of a bootable OS that you can
> carry in your pocket is pretty slick.  I'm using a 1 GB USB flash which
> is, for me, reasonably low cost and far better than carrying floppy
> disks.
>
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