[Gllug] Linux distro for small memory system

budgester at budgester.com budgester at budgester.com
Mon Oct 30 20:47:59 UTC 2006


On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 07:23:05PM +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 03:21:46PM +0800, Richard Cohen 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.
> 
> Richard, you are right: It has been brought home to me all the more by
> trying to get this laptop (actually two laptops) working again.
> 
> Unfortunately this means that there is _no_ suitable operating system
> for these two laptops, since I cannot in good conscience install
> Windows 9x/ME on to them.

Ahh, but they might make jolly good thin clients.

Regards

Budgester
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