[Cialug] [cialug]small linux

[Dan Hockey]

Don Cady wrote:

> [rant]
> Software creep; This is something that has been worrying/discuraging 
> me lately. When I first looked at linux, you could load it on an old 
> pentium and expect reasonable response. The ability to keep your 
> hardware longer was one of the advantages over windows. Now it seems 
> the bare minimum is a PII, and will soon be a PIII. Only one hardware 
> generation better, how is this much better than windows?
> [/rant]
> Has there been any discussion of this among the top of Linuxdom?
>
> dh- Have you tried your usual cadre of damn small, feather, and puppy?
>
I've tried dsl and puppy, both had problems with pcmcia and my nics I 
had tried to use. I havn't tried feather yet.

> Don
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenneth Ristau" <kristau@kristau.net>
> To: <cialug@cialug.org>
> Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 4:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] [cialug]small linux
>
>
>> Dan Hockey wrote:
>>
>>> does anyone know of a linux distro that will run on a old computer? 
>>> its a p75 40mb ram and 6gb hdd. i've tried debian 3r2 but keep 
>>> messing up things when installing X.
>>> -dh
>>
>>
>> I suppose that depends a lot on what you want to use it for.  If you 
>> are just setting up a workstation with no network or on a 
>> well-firewalled network, then a older distro might work fine for 
>> you.  I have some old CD's I could dig up with RH 6.x and early RH 
>> 7.x if you want them.
>>
>> If, however, you are wanting a modern kernel or the system will have 
>> to fend for itself on a hostile network, then there isn't much out 
>> there I'm afraid.  The older distros are so out of date that they 
>> would likely be compromised in short order, even if you applied all 
>> the patches you could find.
>>
>> I have Knoppix 3.2 running on a P133 laptop with 140 Mb of RAM and it 
>> is dog, dog slow.  My wife uses it to look up recipes from our 
>> ReciPants database, so it suits its purpose well because once she 
>> looks the recipe up, it stays on the screen for a long time.  It is 
>> almost impossible to read Slashdot or Google News unless you have the 
>> patience of a 150 year old Tibetan monk.
>>
>> If you want those old disks, let me know and I'll bring them to the 
>> next meeting.
>>
>> later,
>> kristau
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