[Gllug] Linux distro for small memory system

Christopher Currie ccurrie at usa.net
Mon Oct 30 21:25:00 UTC 2006


On Monday 30 October 2006 19:16, gllug-request at gllug.org.uk wrote:
> essage: 7
> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:23:05 +0000
> From: Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] Linux distro for small memory system
> To: Greater London Linux User Group <gllug at gllug.org.uk>
> Message-ID: <20061030192305.GB15530 at furbychan.cocan.org>
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> 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.

Have you tried Puppy?

Christopher
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