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Requirements & Installation
I looked around on the Absolute Linux site for install requirements but was not able to find a list. Given that Absolute Linux is based on Slackware and uses IceWM as its desktop environment, I think it’s safe to conclude that the hardware requirements are fairly modest and that it should run well on most machines including older ones. However, if you are uncertain and want to confirm that it will run on your machine then you might want to post a note on the Installation section of the Absolute Linux forum.

The install took about 20 minutes or so and uses a a text based installer. Don’t let this frighten you away from trying Absolute Linux though as I didn’t find the install particularly difficult. At one point I had to do a bit of partitioning though and that might throw off some folks that are new to Linux and who aren’t familiar with disk partitioning.

Overall I was comfortable with the install and had no problems booting into my Absolute Linux desktop after it was complete. I would like to see a new, graphical installer used for Absolute Linux though. Text based installers get the job done but they do it in an ugly and primitive looking way. It’s 2009 and I think that desktop users have been spoiled to a degree and probably expect more when they go to install a distro to check it out.