In search for a good, lightweight distro for LX1

I have to admit, I loved the set of apps bundled together and the way it all (almost) worked on my little one.

There is no installer on Live DVD / CD / USB Gentoo medium! There is no old way to do it either and that confused me a bit.
Too bad as the handbook is terribly outdated. At this point referring to version 2008.

There is a manual online for a quick and dirty solution which I thought may be good, but after fiddling with it for several hours I've found that certain constraints the system has will just not allow running it.

I've found a nice page "What's the best lightweight Linux distro?" which you may want to check if you don't like my findings.
This page is a bit outdated, however in linux world that actually is good, because checking all those lightweight products I could clearly see how they evolved since that article was written. Several for example didn't move at all and one is dead.

In the end I've landed with CrunchBang which is a clone of debian and I must say a very nice one!

As always I've created my USB installer with Universal USB Installer – Easy as 1 2 3

System comes with a very good installer which will run smoothly on LX1, and when it's done it will start open installation update, so you don't miss on any newest changes.

For example. If you know you printer the installation of support for it will be a breeze! I don't remember when I last used printer from my LX1 :D

 CrunchBang doesn't install everything which also contributes to the speed of installation, a feature I definitely like. You will get the opportunity to install some more apps through nicely done menu links to scripts.

For a new user the menu on the right hand side provided by Conky, which if you're not familiar with is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop.

It can be very easily modified and provide an abundance of info without killing your system! In cas you wondered Super for LX1 means window key.

The default view:

Worth noticing how much or rather how little RAM and CPU is this distro taking on its own.

With a little bit more tweaking that overlay can start reminding something more useful. You can even write scripts to watch movies or listen to music in it :)

my config script for this:

background no
use_xft yes
xftfont Terminus:size=8
xftalpha 1
update_interval 1.0
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type desktop
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
minimum_size 1000 5
draw_shades yes
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
stippled_borders 8
border_margin 4
border_width 1
default_color white
default_shade_color black
default_outline_color white
alignment top_right
#alignment top_right
#alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right
gap_x -820
gap_y 1
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
net_avg_samples 2
override_utf8_locale no
use_spacer yes
TEXT

${color slate grey}${time %a, } ${color }${time %e %B %G}
#${color slate grey}${time %Z,    }${color }${time %H:%M:%S}
${color slate grey}Battery: ${color}${battery}
${color slate grey}UpTime: ${color }$uptime
${color slate grey}Kern:${color }$kernel
${color slate grey}CPU:${color } $cpu% ${acpitemp}C
${cpugraph 20,130 000000 ffffff}
${color slate grey}Load: ${color }$loadavg
${color slate grey}Processes: ${color }$processes  
${color slate grey}Running:   ${color }$running_processes

${color slate grey}Highest CPU:
${color #ddaa00} ${top name 1}${top_mem cpu 1}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 2}${top cpu 2}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 3}${top cpu 3}
${color lightgrey} ${top name 4}${top cpu 4}

${color slate grey}Highest MEM:
${color #ddaa00} ${top_mem name 1}${top_mem mem 1}
${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 2}${top_mem mem 2}
${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 3}${top_mem mem 3}
${color lightgrey} ${top_mem name 4}${top_mem mem 4}

${color slate grey}Local weather:
${color }${exec cat /home/bev/metar}

${color slate grey}MEM:  ${color } $memperc% $mem/$memmax
${membar 3,100}
${color slate grey}SWAP: ${color }$swapperc% $swap/$swapmax
${swapbar 3,100}

${color slate grey}ROOT:    ${color }${fs_free /}/${fs_size /}
${fs_bar 3,100 /}
${color slate grey}HOME:  ${color }${fs_free /home}/${fs_size /home}
${fs_bar 3,100 /home}
${color slate grey}VAR:  ${color }${fs_free /var}/${fs_size /var}
${fs_bar 3,100 /var}
${color slate grey}NET: 
${color}Up: ${color }${upspeed eth1} k/s
${upspeedgraph eth1 20,130 000000 ffffff}
${color}Down: ${color }${downspeed eth1}k/s${color}
${downspeedgraph eth1 20,130 000000 ffffff}