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

[Jim Kinney]

Wow! That's tiny!
On Feb 2, 2016 9:46 AM, "Charles Shapiro" <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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