[Gllug] Picking a linux distro (Jason Clifford)

Swen Hartmut Tromm swentromm at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Jun 20 00:20:54 UTC 2010


Pentium III? I would suggest Debian in the first place.

On Saturday 19 Jun 2010, gllug-request at gllug.org.uk wrote:
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> From: Adrian McMenamin <adrian at newgolddream.dyndns.info>
> Subject: [Gllug] Picking a linux distro
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> I have an old laptop with 256 MB memory and a pentium III that I am
> tinking of using for some kernel development (testing some ideas on
> handling low memory) - I'd like a disto that makes it easy to use a
> custom 2.6 kernel and will not fall over wit that level of memory unless
> I want it to.
>
> Any recommendations?



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