Tectonic: In a Nutshell--Peanut Linux | Linux Today

Tectonic: In a Nutshell–Peanut Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 28, 2005

“I first came across this Canadian distro at a time when I was
dissatisfied with the trend towards large distributions that came
on three or more CDs and had silly design issues, such as rpm
dependencies requiring Emacs before installing Apache. I decided to
look for a distribution with a small footprint, KDE, and useful
apps. I tried out Bonsai and Peanut. At the time Peanut Linux was
on version 9.4, and I’ve run every release since then.

“Peanut Linux is very much an enthusiast’s all-in-one
distribution. Before the time of credit-card-sized live CD
distributions Peanut was one of the smallest distro downloads,
hence the name Peanut…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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