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I'm fairly new to Linux. July of 2010 I installed Ubunto. Over the past 6 months I've migrated to Mint, Mint 9, Mint 10, Linux Mint Debian. Installed Debian Squeeze ...
  1. 01-12-2011 #1
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    Building an OS

    I'm fairly new to Linux. July of 2010 I installed Ubunto. Over the past 6 months I've migrated to Mint, Mint 9, Mint 10, Linux Mint Debian. Installed Debian Squeeze next to LMDE, and use this two the most.

    I've looked at and installed a few others to explore, (openSUSE KDE I managed to cripple with a days use, my first adventure away from the Gnome GUI), DSL, Puppy, Fedora 14 on a flash drive, Chrome OS.

    My roommate uses his computer to surf the net and watch movie and nothing else. It is running Mint 10. Last night I tried the live Chrome OS dvd on his machine and it almost would not boot. Went back and looked at the minimum system requirements and saw that you need 4G-8G of ram, he only has 1G.

    Here is what I would like to do, but need a direction to head. I want an OS that is stream lined with the focus of being a web browser, preferably the Google Chrome browser. I tried a "build your own Linux OS" site but the resulting ISO dvd install was not live and warned that all HDD would be reformatted and the OS would then be installed. Not exactly what I had in mind.

    Are there some already built Linux OSes that are similar to the Chrome OS?

    If not, where can I build a Live custom OS that uses all the system resources geared towards the goal of surfing the web?
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    Use Debian to build it. If you want more performance, try using a virtual machine with limited memory for building. The distribution has live helper for such.
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  4. 01-13-2011 #4
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    Not sure how other distributions handle it (and i am sure they do), but here is a how-to do it with live-helper on Debian (how-to sounds difficult, but its only a few commands and a bit of time, about an hour):
    Debian User Forums • View topic - trick - create a live installable copy of your system

    So i would do it that way:
    go for a fresh installation in VBox or on a separate partition
    deselect environment
    install xorg and a small window-managment (gnome-core or xfce or flluxbox or such)
    install the applications i want and configure them
    do the live-helper magic
    Done
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