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

[Charles Shapiro]

There's always Menuet ( http://menuetos.net ).  Fits on a single floppy
(even the 64-bit version), includes spiffy GUI interface, audio/video
capabilities, internet browser, Doom, et alia.

"The design goal has been to remove the extra layers between different
parts of an OS, which normally complicate programming and create bugs."

System language is x86 assembly, of course.

-- CHS


On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 8:16 PM, DJ-Pfulio <djpfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:

> 386sx16 with 1 MB memory for me. I'd guess the HDD was 20MB.
> It had X/Windows, barely.
>
> A few years later and I'd swapped that out for a 486dx/33 - needed the math
> coprocessor to do flight simulation towards an instrument rating.
>
> If you need a lite-distro, consider TinyCore - 12MB includes X/Windows and
> it
> should run on i386 CPU. That Pentium M should fly with it.  If you want
> more in
> a distro, look at TinyCorePlus - about 70MB last time I checked.
>
>
> On 02/01/2016 07:14 PM, Jim Lynch wrote:
> > 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.
> >>
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