[Cialug] [cialug]small linux

[Don Cady]

[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?

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  The older distros are so out of date that they would likely be 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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