[Gllug] Linux distro for small memory system

[- Tethys]

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.

Tet
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