Ubuntu Lite ... the elusive Linux
I first saw word of it on Wikipedia. But there's little else to indicate what's going on -- if anything with Ubuntu Lite, the rumored Ubuntu Linux flavor that's lighter than Xubuntu (which, in turn, is lighter than papa Ubuntu). I can't even load what's supposed to be the official Ubuntu Lite Web page, but this post from Mad Penguin lays it out. And see what the madding crowd has to say on Digg. And there's talk of Ubuntu Lite on the Ubuntu forums.
Ubuntu Lite is meant to run on hardware that even chokes a bit on Xubuntu. 64 MB of RAM will be OK. Lite will run the IceWM window manager (same as Puppy Linux) instead of the Xfce window manager used by Xubuntu. But you will still have the pros of Ubuntu, mainly the easy access to software packages via the distro's install capability.
I'd love to try Ubuntu Lite, if it even exists at this point. So far, I'm really liking Xubuntu, but to have something that can compete with Puppy and Damn Small Linux (which hasn't really worked for me at all, by the way -- I'm getting nowhere even with Ethernet) would be great. At this point, Puppy is getting better all the time, so it would be quite a race if the Ubuntu community got involved in a similar Linux distribution.
That said, some of the commenters recently, and my own look at the situation, tells me that a system that needs 128 MB of RAM or more to run from a live CD would probably do well with a lot less memory if the OS is installed to the hard drive. Damn Small Linux, for instance needs 128 MB to run from CD but can run from as little as 16 MB from the HD, according to the give specs.