[Klug-general] KLUG OS

[George Prowse]

rich-ayres at tiscali.co.uk wrote:

>  As someone on low income with a fair amount of time and lots of old 
> equipment ( some kindly donated by KLUG members) I am particularly 
> interested in "Linux from the Dawn of Time" and low memory distros in 
> particular. Surfing the web is not a priority for me as I have an old 
> 500Mhz pentium which is fast enough for me. I am currently trying to 
> build an LFS system. 16M of RAM ran Windows 95 at a tolerable pace for 
> everyday tasks surely some Basic linux system  must still be lingering 
> around from that era? (DSL apart as it appears to have very limited 
> application content as far as I can gather) Most super PCs seem to 
> waste CPU cyc and RAM making  whirling desktops and other gimmicks ( or 
> so I am lead to believe). To each his own say I. Give what you can (not 
> much in my case) and be grateful for the support of fellow KLUGGERS.  
> Incidently I have a problem building gcc on LFS but will supply details 
> when I have had another go!
>  Rich
> P.S Am I right in thinking that this is the same guy who was convinced 
> that he could devise a totally secure OS? 
> 
I was just having a sly dig at Debian, nothing to do with me.

If you're looking at a distro that runs well on slow hardware then 
Gentoo is probably your best bet as it will be up and running (command 
line) in a couple of hours. After a few long (during the night) compiles 
(only if you want X) you should have a nifty system. A few packages I 
would suggest is slim, openbox (if so also get obconf and obmenu), 
pypanel and most importantly ccache to speed subsequent compiles up.