Hello again, I'd like a suggestion as to a version of Linux I can use as a preboot enviroment, like those new laptops have. For those who have never heard of one, a preboot enviroment is a program that has most widely used programs built in. Email, web browser, Facebook, Twitter, whatever, all in this program that comes up after POST. The main point of this program is it takes all of 5 seconds to load, instead of minutes wasted on waiting for Windows to load. Besides, Windows is WAY more than needed to browse eBay or look at the news. I already have Windows Vista and Ubuntu dual booted on my laptop now, except I never use Ubuntu. I thought I would at first, using it for most things I didn't need Windows for. But instead it's just turned into a waste of half of my laptop's HDD space. I was going to replace it with a copy of Linux that was:
light (<1GB of install files),
quick to boot (<15 seconds from bootloader to desktop),
conserves power (at best, I can get 90 minutes of web browsing with Firefox on vista),
and supports basic apps like Firefox, ZSNES (SNES console emulator), and DOSBOX (nothing like retro gaming, although I do like TES Skyrim too).
So, bottom line, what is the best mini-quick-boot-super-efficient Linux distro that doesn't need me to install a bunch of crap for it to work right. If it helps, the laptop is a HP 6830s industrial laptop, Intel core 2 Duo @ 2.00 GHZ, 4 GB RAM, 250 GB HDD (half of this is for Windows, the other currently for Ubuntu, although I will probably split it 80:20 with the preboot enviroment instead of 50:50).
light (<1GB of install files),
quick to boot (<15 seconds from bootloader to desktop),
conserves power (at best, I can get 90 minutes of web browsing with Firefox on vista),
and supports basic apps like Firefox, ZSNES (SNES console emulator), and DOSBOX (nothing like retro gaming, although I do like TES Skyrim too).
So, bottom line, what is the best mini-quick-boot-super-efficient Linux distro that doesn't need me to install a bunch of crap for it to work right. If it helps, the laptop is a HP 6830s industrial laptop, Intel core 2 Duo @ 2.00 GHZ, 4 GB RAM, 250 GB HDD (half of this is for Windows, the other currently for Ubuntu, although I will probably split it 80:20 with the preboot enviroment instead of 50:50).