The great mini-Linux die-off

Is it just me or have dozens of miniature Linux distros vanished in recent years?
The current crop seem to consist mostly of:
- Rescue CDs (e.g. Parted Magic)
- Single-user Puppy variants
- "Lightweight" spins of major distros (e.g. Lubuntu)
What happened here? Are popular demand and developer need just not as great, given the recent explosion of computing power?

Arch_in wrote:
Has to be the same one you're in. Either that or ye have a hell of an internet connection. Guess should say ... was at the time. Things seem to be getting heavier for #!, still like it and esp the folks in the distro's community/forum. When 1st started using that distro, it packed a hell of a punch ( and was ... still is, uber user friendly.) The install I'd 1st setup for it idled at all of 38mbs/ram. For all it offered ... was blown away by it.
Still isn't massive imo anyway, still on the lighter side. Hopefully the new iso is heading back to that. Dun know, either way learned 1/2 enough about all this opensource linuxy goodness by now. Couldn't bare anything out of the box anymore. Long babbling post trying to cut short. ( ya'll were warned) Yeppers compared to a ton of other distro's, #! still fully qualifies as minimal imo. When quite a few of the biggies are using 3-5-600mbs, tons more cpu + diskspace and for all that are less user friendly, less stable than crunchbang by far.
Crunchbang blazed on this ole dinosaur w a massive 2.8ghz 1 core P4 and a mighty 512ddr2. So yeppers a distro that can do that, stand by the opinion ... is minimalistic. Sheesh ... tried to cut it short. Oh well ... shrugs.
You ARE aware that these forums are international, and that not all the members have English as first (or even second) language? Please speak a bit more formally, less sms-language and colloquialisms and such, the above is just a pain to read.

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