[cumbria_lug] Re: New distro advice (Michael Saunders) Adjunct

[grouper at beehive.demon.co.uk]

Very cogent points! Having gone from a "money is no object" environment to one 
where I have to contemplate what I can do with a P2 machine with 32M of RAM, 
(from my P4 2.0Ghz, 1GB RAM, 80GB HD laptop! It's supposed to make up for the 
pittance I get paid!))  I'm quite sensitive to how "bloated" current distros 
are. I keep a wallet full of old, way past EOL distros because I can get them 
to work reasonably well with old hardware. Big security shadow cast, of 
course.  But sometimes I have no choice. It would be nice to have more choice 
when it comes to getting acceptable performance from near-EOL hardware. Being 
in the public sector, I'm spending your taxes, after all.