Austrumi, A great little ram distro!
I was pleasantly surprized the other day. While looking around on Distrowatch for some new distros to try. I do that from time to time just to amuse myself. Now this distro isn’t new, but it’s new to me and quit pleasing to use.
It’s called “Austrumi”, and it’s based on Slackware. The part that really set well with me was that it comes with Skype and some codecs already installed. Since I use skype nearly everytime I boot up, it makes this livecd quite usable for me.
But it has other pluses for a livecd. One it fits on a business card disk which will fit in your pocket. It also boots to ram and ejects the disk so you can use the drive for other disks.
I was booted up in version 1.8.5 and downloaded version 1.9.3 and burned it to disk. Because it runs totally in ram, it’s quit responsive, not like most livecds which are sluggish uncompressing and loading programs. Austrumi responds quickly.
Of course it has some faults, which distro doesn’t?
It seems to be built for Pentium processesors. And won’t work on AMD or even my Centrino M Processor, which is intel, that seemed strange to me. So it was a little disappointing after I had tested it on my low end box and then found it wouldn’t work on my Laptop, which is somewhat newer and stronger.
But all in all!
I still think it’s a great find and plan to keep a disk handy on my desk to run when I need to.