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

[Jerry Yu]

I'd recommend  DSL (as in 'damn small linux'), if you don't have time or
desire to DIY. I used it and am happy with it.

On 10/19/06, Michael B. Trausch <fd0man at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Pope jonnyX wrote:
> >
> > OK, the actual Linux (and/or BSD) related question:
> >
> > Like most geeks, my non-techie friends give me computer-related
> > things that are "obsolete" (hence my need to purge before moving;
> > alas, the hardware was all snagged in under 24hrs, else I'd offer it
> > here). 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,
> > lots of extra goodies. I'm thinking maybe a glorified terminal for a
> > Cisco-2511 hooked up to my routers & switches and/or maybe a config
> > "server". What minimal distros would y'all recommend, and why?
> >
>
> My vote goes to Slackware for such a system.
>
> While I don't agree with the direction that they have gone with their
> distribution in the past couple of years, they do provide a good
> distribution for using as a small terminal based system, without having
> too much in the way of overhead.
>
> If you want to completely eliminate any extra overhead for a lightweight
> X terminal setup, you could use a higher-powered system to build a
> custom Gentoo distro, as well.  Of course, that would take a major time
> investment, and if you do it often, maybe it wouldn't be worth the
> effort every time (though, you could do it once, and take a dump image
> of it, and use that to image other machines using the same setup, if you
> wanted...)
>
> In any case, my vote for this type of system would be Slackware.
> Definitely not something like Ubuntu, because Ubuntu is a bit heavy for
> a system like that.
>
>         -- Mike
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