[Gllug] Linux distro for small memory system

Richard Jones rich at annexia.org
Mon Oct 30 12:27:50 UTC 2006


On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 11:13:21AM +0100, - Tethys wrote:
> On 10/30/06, Richard Cohen <vmlinuz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >There is a fascination within the community with repurposing old
> >hardware - old, *obselete* hardware.  A machine with 64MB of RAM is
> >perfectly capable of running as a headless - or at least X-less -
> >machine, but it's simply not suitable for use as an interactive
> >graphical desktop machine, running anything like current software.
> 
> Agreed. It needn't be like that, and it *shouldn't* be like that. But
> sadly, it is. Modern Unix software is just too bloated, and even high
> end machines suffer because of it.

Funnily enough I was just having a rant about that ...

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=203284&threshold=-1&commentsort=0&mode=nested&cid=16630010

Rich.

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