[ale] Minimal installs on low-end hardware (was RE: [semi-OT] A local lurker

Pope jonnyX jonnyx at mindspring.com
Thu Oct 19 14:29:44 EDT 2006


On Oct 19, 2006 1:51 PM, "Brian D. Pitts" <bpitts at LearnLink.Emory.Edu> spaketh'd unto us thusly:

> Pope jonnyX <jonnyx at mindspring.com> writes:
>
>> I recently acquired one of the old "butterfly keyboard"
>> IBM Thinkpads; it's a model 701c with a 486DX4/100 CPU, 24M RAM, 2G
>> hdd...What minimal distros would y'all recommend, and why?
>
> http://delilinux.de/ 0.6 worked well for me on similar hardware.

-snip-

> DeLi Linux 0.7 is a complete rewrite from scratch. It&#65533;s no longer based on
> another distribution, but it uses some tools from Slackware and from Crux.

-snip-

> DeLi Linux is available for free at http://www.delilinux.de

Beautiful. Thanks.



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