[ale] midori linux vs. gentoo linux (features not flame!)

Ray Knight audilvr at speakeasy.org
Sat Jan 4 02:47:22 EST 2003


20 MB.  Of course this particular box is just running a caching DNS
server on my internal network.  Its an Apple Mac LC475 running headless
and extremely quiet.

Ray

On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 20:05, Dow Hurst wrote:
> I have used 8Mb long ago on my first Slackware install.  Got X running 
> on it too!
> Dow
> 
> 
> Calvin Harrigan wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 18:04, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Couple of quick questions for the guru's out there...  Has anyone used 
> >>Midori linux?  Is it still supported or is it a dying dog?  The website 
> >>looks out of date, but it likes like a really interesting (embedded) 
> >>distro.  
> >>
> >>Another thing that I'm wondering, is how would Midori compare to Gentoo 
> >>as far as getting the "smallest" distro possible?
> >>
> >>I'm looking for a distro that will run in about 255 Megs (with X!) and 
> >>I'm not sure how to go about it...  If anyone knows of anything that can 
> >>fit the bill, or if anyone has any good info about Midori, please let me 
> >>know...
> >>
> >>As always, much respect in advance!
> >>-CB
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Christophers post prompted me to ask, what is the regular ram count on
> >your machines?  He said he would like to run within 256MBs, I thought
> >that was plenty enough to run linux.  I have rarely ever get over 300
> >Megs of RAM usage running kde, openoffice, mysql server, xmms, gaim,
> >galeon, Ximian, several konqueror windows and konsoles simultaneously.
> >
> >
> >Calvin...
> >
> >
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