[Scottish] Small distros

Ian Drake, IT, CIR, SE Dunbartonshire scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk
Fri Aug 23 15:44:00 2002


Mandrake is 586+ only isn't it?

-----Original Message-----
From: Kenny Duffus [mailto:Kenny.Duffus@cis.strath.ac.uk]
Sent: 23 August 2002 15:35
To: scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Scottish] Small distros


On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 15:02:23 +0100 "Brian Eley" <beley@cis.strath.ac.uk>
wrote :

> Hi,
> 
> Can anyone recommend any small, novice friendly distros for use on some
486s
> / early pentiums? I've got some free time and some machines itching to be
> tinkered with :-) I plan to network them as well, and generally have a
good
> ol' footer.
> 
> Do any places sell such distros on CDs, as i'm only on a 56K connection
and
> can't download anything too big.
> 

Mandrake 8.2 also does a minimal install

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Kenny Duffus
Department of Computer & Information Sciences
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
Tel: +44 (0)141 548 3592    Fax: +44 (0)141 552 5330

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