[Liverpool] Advice

[Neil Bothwick]

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:20:12 +0000, Sujita Purushothaman wrote:

>   Hoping some people here will have good suggestions. I have an old 
> laptop that currently runs on Windows 98 ( :-) ). It has 10GB hard disk 
> space and 128 MB RAM. Pretty old. I want to install linux on it. I 
> wouldn't be storing much data on it, I'd still like to leave Windows on 
> it, so I have 5GB to play with. What distros are lightweight, but have
> a easy to use package management system? ( I would need python (+devel) 
> and gcc libs immediately). Thanks!

Another possibility is Vector Linux. There was an article on running
Linux on older hardware in the March 2008 issue of Linux Format </plug>.


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Neil Bothwick

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