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QEMU works best with small-footprint guest OS's, and BL certainly qualifies 
there.  There are others such as DamnSmall and Feather linux.  DamnSmall is 
pledged to staying at 50 meg though they have started work on a larger 
product, DamnSmall-Not! the beta of which is around 85 meg.  The developers 
of Feather have allowed their implementation to grow from 65 meg to over 100 
so that they could include some of the better applications, like Abiword.  
There is also Puppy, which has also grown to over 100 meg. as well.  Some of 
the other Slackware based implementations like Slax and Vector also run well 
in QEMU because they are smaller and don't have "hogs" like Gnome or KDE 
included.  OO is nice but it too uses too much memory and CPU cycles...

-------------- Original message from sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>: 
-------------- 


> On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote: 
> 
> > sindi keesan wrote: 
> >> 
> >> BL3 sounds like the ideal linux to download for use under 
> >> QEMU on a Windows computer, so people can try out linux 
> >> without having to repartition, or add a hard drive, or 
> >> run it in a loop (which might not be possible in Win2000 
> >> or XP). 
> > 
> > I agree. That's why I added James' BL3 image for QEMU 
> > to the BL3 homepage. So there are now three versions 
> > available: DOS, floppy and QEMU. 
> > 
> > Cheers, 
> > Steven 
> 
> And that is why I think the QEMU image should be made more readily 
> available to people using QEMU who don't want to download a few hundred MB 
> to try out linux under it, such as users of XP. 
> 
> Would it also be helpful, for such users, to post a version of BL3-qemu 
> that has some of the add-ons already added, such as icewm and links2ssl 
> and abiword? It would maybe triple the size, but still only about 15MB. 
> Sindi 
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