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    Have been messing around with VMware workstation this morning and managed to get my first virtual machine going with a free OS called Puppy Linux...yipee !

    Does anyone know of another free and small OS I could trial as well under VMware......Puppy Linux was only 130mb or so which was ideal.
     
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    4little1s said:
    Have been messing around with VMware workstation this morning and managed to get my first virtual machine going with a free OS called Puppy Linux...yipee !

    Does anyone know of another free and small OS I could trial as well under VMware......Puppy Linux was only 130mb or so which was ideal.
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    Nice one, I've started looking at VMware Player and it does beat Windows 7 Virtual XP in some ways.

    I've played about with Puppy Linux before, also have a look at Damn Small Linux:

    http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

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    If you have a copy of Windows XP you could also use a package like nlite to strip out all the essentails so it would run on a smaller hardware platforms, that would get you a 30 day trail of XP running on your VMware at least to have a play

    http://www.nliteos.com/
     
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    Thanks everyone appreciate the help and pointers, have installed few Linux OS now. Also, I found an Windows Server 2008 CD (30 day trial) in my cupboard that I have installed on to VMware earlier....
     
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    I don't know exactly what your looking for but some i know and have used are:

    Centos (red hat enterprise based)
    Freenas (nas distro)
    Turnkeylinux (purpose based os with nice web interface for management)
    Ubuntu
    Kubuntu
    Smoothwall (firewall linux os)
    Knoppix (live CD Rescue mandriva based (i think) linux)
    ClearOS (centos/red hat based)
    Fedora core (red hat based)
    Debian
    Damn small linux (already mentioned)
    Ipcop (another firewall distro)
    monowall (yet another firewall distro)
    openfiler (Nas distro)

    i will think of more but a quick google search will reveal the above with download links to the ISO's

    joe

    P.S backtrack (network security distro, can be run from DVD or installed to hard disk drive)
     
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    If your looking for a workstation os then I would choose Ubuntu or possibly mint as Ubuntu has a somewhat annoying Unity desktop now.

    If you after a server for files, vpn and firewall then a good free 1 is clearos

    For a free mail server try Zimbra on either centos or ubuntu server
     
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    4little1s said:
    Hi, I started downloading Ubuntu but stopped it when I realised how big the download was. Quite like small OS systems...
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    Yeah, but the thing is your still thinking windows i.e a DVD of 4.7GB expands to about 6-7GB of operating system.

    with linux (all the systems i've used) you can choose what packages you want to install whether that be a graphical desktop, server package or just running from the command line.

    most minimal installs will use about 400-500 mb of disk space with the average being 1-2gb (graphical desktops are the space hogs) unless you can get something like Fluxebox which is designed to be light weight

    so that 4.7gb will be alot of stuff you may not (probably wont) use

    alot of the distributions will have a minimal download (all extra packages are pulled over the internet when needed) as posilan already stated.

    joe
     
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