[ale] memory-conservative distribution

[David S. Jackson]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 11:45:30PM -0000 John Wells <jb at sourceillustrated.com> wrote:
> I'm setting up an old 120mhz system with 16 megs ram to serve as a personal
> mail server.  Since RH these days requires >32mb ram, I need a system with a
> smaller footprint.

Slack is good stuff; it's one of my favorites.  If the box is only a
mailserver, Slack might be what you want since you have great
flexibility with small installations.  You'll have to go through and
harden up the box afterwards though.  

> I have a cd copy of slack 8.0 I was considering, but thought I'd pose the
> question to the list.  Any recommendations?

X is what eats up the ram really fast.  If you don't bother with X, you
can probably run a Linux box in 8mb of RAM.  I have an older Slack box
with 4mb of RAM.  It's slow, but it still runs fine.  I have a number of
older 486's and pentiums that run Slack 8 with 16mb of RAM.

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