A rather unknown [Linux] distribution, found at [http://www.ibiblio.org/peanut/].

Derived from [Slackware]. It is worth knowing because:

    * it tries to be small. No longer so small as it used to be, but still considerably smaller than giants like [SUSE] or [Redhat];
    * it tends to be quite fast;
    * it has a customized version of [MC]. It is the first thing I miss as soon as I install any other distro. It has a very good font size setting and it somehow can be used to install just about any package: tgz, rpm, deb, you name it. It doesn't handle dependencies, but it does a very good job replacing 'rpm -xfv-whatever' or 'dpkg -i' etc.
    * it can be installed on a FAT32 partition; it gets too slow then, but [Windows] users may want to try it this way;
    * even in a native Linux partition, it provides the means to be launched from a [DOS] partition and a batch file. So you don't need LILO or Grub or anything that should strike fear into a newbie's heart because it might mess with the MBR.

It is a [Slackware], though. It is not too friendly to newbies sometimes.

Peanut is created and maintained by one single man, in Canada, that goes by the name of "linuxkid".

[Luciano ES] testifies that [ActiveTcl] installs in it without the slightest glitch.

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