[ale] Dell Ispirion B130 laptop with 2GBdisk and 2GB memory (max)

[Jim Lynch]

I agree, my first Linux system ran on a 386sx16 with 8 MB memory and a 
30MB drive.

No gui desktop however.

Jim.

On 02/01/2016 06:24 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 15:34:32 -0500
> Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> He may meant 20GB. Puppy Linux is starting to get fat as well. No
>> offense here implied. The only advantage us running from USB drive or
>> memory disk and very comprehensive drivers and firmware collection.
>> But if you tried latest "quirky" boot up takes forever.
>>
>> But I guess that is the future OS are getting fat and slow and
>> thankfully hardware manufacturers are able to put 4-8 cores in chip
>> for next to nothing.
>>
>> Slim distro building around busybox is Slitaz. ISO is 50 MB installed
>> on HDD is around 320. You get desktop file manager browser and
>> web-based control panel.
>>
>> But only my opinion.
> Nobody can argue that today's Linux can run on my 1998 Pentium II
> 300mhz with 16*M*B of RAM, like Win98 or 1999 Red Hat 5.1 could do. But
> that sort of misses the point: My Pentium II300 cost me about $2K in
> December 1998.
>
> AFAIK, any distro except compile it yourself Funtoo and Gentoo can
> install and fit on a 16GB thumb drive. I think most current Linuxes can
> perform simple duties on a computer with 500Mhz single CPU and 512MB
> RAM, as long as you install OpenBox or fvwm or IceWM as the window
> manager, and don't use pigs like LibreOffice and Firefox.
>
> Think about 500Mhz and 512MB: When was the last time anyone sold a
> computer like that? Over a decade ago. Any commodity desktop or laptop
> manufactured for general sale since 2006 had at least 1GB RAM and 1Ghz
> single CPU. My two laptops from that era both have almost 2GHz dual
> core processors and 2GB RAM.
>
> In other words, you'd need to try very hard to find a computer that
> wouldn't run a couple programs simultaneously from any distro giving
> you a choice of Window Managers.
>
>
> SteveT
>
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