Taking a look at xPUD 0.9 (DistroWatch Weekly #319)

Posted by caitlyn on Sep 7, 2009 11:34 AM EDT
DistroWatch; By Caitlyn Martin, Chris Smart and Ladislav Bodnar
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This week we look at an even smaller and more unusual distribution from Taiwan called xPUD. At just 51 MB total size, xPUD is almost as small as Damn Small Linux (DSL) was. xPUD, unlike DSL, is not aimed at legacy hardware with very limited resources. Instead it seeks to provide a very simple, kiosk-like desktop environment with just a few basic, modern tools run entirely from RAM. As a result the minimum RAM required to run xPUD is 384MB.

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