My what small footprints you have..

Fred Langa has a good article up over at Information Week about small and zero-footprint Linux distros.. I may have to download one of the “run from CD” versions so I have something I can play with at work during slow times. It’s almost summer, once we get through our big annual meeting in late May the summer should really bring the workload to a crawl around the office. I should have some time to play around with it, assuming we don’t develop some large project to do over the summer. I doubt we will, there hasn’t been enough planning done at this point on anything.

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