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On Fri, 8 Apr 2011, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

  

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MicroXP takes 15 minutes to install (not counting adding defrag, SMplayer,
and browsers).



      

Sindi:
        What is microxp and where do you find it?
regards
hg
    

A very small XP distributed free at many download sites such as 
warezaccess, rapidshare, and others, via bittorrent.  You probably will 
need a _javascript_ browser.  Three friends found it for me when I got 
something related but not installable (MicroXP Portable 2011 - runs inside 
regular XP under qemu), in versions 0.81, 0.82 and 0.83.  Probably any of 
these would work but the programs included have been updated (spinrite, 
memtest, others).  The bittorrent produces about 105MB iso file, which 
installs to about 200MB of Windows files (plus swap file).  Includes SP3 
and is highly optimized and reduced by leaving out things like IE (add 
your own browser), floppy support, telnet, Media Player (add SMPlayer 
based on Mplayer), screen decorations, processes irrelevant to most users 
(supports only one user, no smartcard support, etc).  Not easily updatable 
but without IE and Outlook and Media Player said not to be a security 
risk.  I ran several browsers on it for a while without getting viruses 
(but I run XP without getting viruses).  Uses about 50MB to boot and about 
65-70 to run recent versions of Seamonkey and Firefox.  Perhaps Opera 10 
and 11 would use less than 100MB memory in a computer with 128MB RAM.
(I have MicroXP on something now and could cut it to 128MB to test).

Installs much faster, boots faster and is said to run faster than XP.
You don't need to waste time removing garbage, updating then removing all 
the backup files, etc.

I was able to install four browsers, ccleaner, malwarebytes but not 
antivir (it complained), defraggler (comes without defrag), and assorted 
other programs.  Used putty to ssh/telnet.  200MB defragmented much faster 
than the 4GB XP that results from installing SP3 without removing garbage. 
I have not yet tested with netflix (requires Windows and IE or Firefox)
but youtube worked.  Linux is not allowed for netflix due to copy 
protection mechanisms.

XP and basiclinux (and other linuxes) can be set to dual boot, about which 
I posted a while back.  Install XP to FAT32, set up lilo boot (install to 
the linux partition), copy the linux boot sector to the first partition 
(FAT32) and edit Windows boot.ini to point to it.  Boots to a choice of 
'Windows XP Professional...' or LILO (or name it BL2 if you only use one 
linux).  Choose lilo then the next screen lets you hit Enter for the 
default or choose any other linux.  Or you can boot with lilo on floppy 
disk, or use loadlin.

Anyone know why newer seamonkey and firefox use so much ram in linux?
Or why the older versions use more ram in Puppy Linux than Basiclinux?

hg - do you have a longer name?
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Hi Cindi:
             Thanks for the info re:microxp. Sounds very interesting. I just realised that this list strips of email addresses and  "from:s". Yes I do have a very long name and after  more than 7 decades of spelling it out I decided to use just initials. Getting lazy in the autumn o f life.

regards
harsha godavari