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winemaster
10-17-2009, 11:20 PM
http://custom.nimblex.net/
cdnLilWolf
10-18-2009, 05:34 AM
From a quick glance it really seems no different that the options presented to you in other installers.
winemaster
10-18-2009, 08:21 AM
Chris Pirillo went GA-GA over it so thought it might interest some people
cdnLilWolf
10-18-2009, 10:32 AM
Not having heard of him, I Googled his name. It seems he's easily impressed by what I consider mundane. It's hard to say who needs a better life, him or me. ;)
winemaster
10-18-2009, 11:09 AM
The fact you didn't know him doesn't make him unknown
cdnLilWolf
10-18-2009, 11:25 AM
I never called him an unknown, I merely stated that "I" had never heard of him (hence the curiosity to Google him). The rest is just blather and a personal opinion of what I absorbed from spending 15 minutes on his website. He just seemed over-excited about features that are of little consequence (IMNSHO).
Just Doug
10-18-2009, 11:41 AM
it makes sense in that you don't have to bother downloading what you don't want

i'm going to give the resulting iso a try
cdnLilWolf
10-18-2009, 03:39 PM
As an exercise, I gave it a shot. I still ended up with a 400MB CD with what I would call a minimalist useful Live CD. (OpenOffice, FireFox, Samba, some networking tools, etc.). You could probably save 100MB by dropping the "Office" aspect if a simple editor would do. (YMMV)

If space is an issue, there are still distros that are considerably smaller than that.

Having said all that, I would still personally lean towards more flexibility, meaning a more full-featured live CD as the choices are somewhat narrow.