My hardware have drifted down to the low end. So I will have to be economic with my resources. The new distros I tried really on a lot of resources, which I do not have.

Would someone please suggest me a distro that is 1 CD. That is not heavily bloated (SUSE, Fedora, Mandriva, etc). XFce has to integrate well into the distro. Has a built-in firewall.

HAS TO have good hardware detection. I tried many distros, and it has lousy hardware detection.

And easy to install. I had the hardest time trying to install Slackware-based distros. Nothing boots after going through all the choices I had to make.



Please EXCLUDE the following as I already tried and didn't work for me. If it worked for you or you like the distro, then good for you. I am looking for something that I might work for me; not what worked for you. So PLEASE if you see your favourite distro below, don't try to convince me or debate me over it.

Here they are in no particular order: (K)Ubuntu, (Open) SUSE, Mandriva, Red Hat, Fedora, Debian, Damn Small, Arch, Ark, Zenwalk, Slackware, Slax, PCLinuxOS, Xandros, Vector.

Also exclude, the live-CDs. Distros without a communitee (forums) or are not active in on-going development or have a handful of developers.

Thanks for reading. Please keep it on topic.