Two Non-buntu Alternatives for your Netbook – Part 1: Fluxflux-sl

“Chances are several of you, or somebody close to you, got a new
netbook over the festive period, and now you are faced with the
agonising question what to put on it to make it usable. Chances are
the version of Windows that it came with does not really do it for
you.

“I’ve dug out two lesser known distributions that are for once
not based on Ubuntu or using its repositories, and have nothing to
do with Nokia, Intel or Google either. Independent is what we
want.

“Fluxflux

“It appears Fluxflux was once based on PCLinuxOS but has since
become a small Slackware-based live distribution. Actually, on
closer investigation it turned out to be based on Slax as evidenced
in the cheat codes and is put together using the same modular
system. One of the two developers, Quax, also seems to be quite
active on the Slax forums.”

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