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Slitaz? Are you crazy? ... for me it's a support distro

If well aren't so focused on netbooks, Maemo should be included. Nokia N900 looks more like a subnotebook than a cellphone.

Some tiny, but damn fast linux mini-distros like i.e. SliTaz could be interesting to put on the mix.

I think this may be what you are looking for...

You can install it from a floppy and it will run in 24MB's of RAM.

Pretty modern and lite.

http://forum.slitaz.org/index.php/discussion/38/floppy-install-how-to

Slitaz Linux is my favorite these days for older hardware and the requirements are modest to say the least.

This will not apply to your situation but I installed it on a machine with 256MB's and I can run Opera use youtube and do all kinds of things on this machine, Ubuntu would run but it ran like molasses on a cold day....

@ScytheBlade1, Slitaz needs you ;)

I hope the kernel gurus focus on power. With the nearly double battery performance of Win7 X64 on my laptop as compared to Jaunty X64, I am really having trouble getting people to move to Linux.

'tis the time of horizontal scaling - lets make things more power efficient please

Along those lines, I'd recommend SliTaz

Want snappy Linux? Run Slitaz on a box with more than 256MB RAM and it runs all in memory automatically. Instantaneous in just about every way.

First of all, XP doesn't work well on 128MB unless you ignore the required safety mechanisms, use an unpatched version (like SP1) and don't run any applications.

Try putting LXDE, however, on that same machine, and you will have a modern, FD.o compliant desktop based on the light OpenBox. It uses 42MB at boot on my two (previously Win2000) laptops with 128MB.

Want better? Slitaz is a similar setup in a 26MB .iso. It can run completely in memory in a machine with just 256MB. Talk about blazing fast ....

The problem with your argument is that there are about 800 distros which already meet his needs and which don't require him to do anything. I'm going to recommend Slitax. OpenBox and FF3 in a 25MB .iso.

I would suggest Slitaz myself. Hella useful, hella compact.

If you think DSL is amazingly original then you should try SliTaz. ( http://www.slitaz.org/en/ ). They've crammed a working desktop into half the space of DSL, and it's a damn sight more functional, too. It's one of the most unique distro's I've tried so far.