Re: Hi & Distro Recomendation for newbie

On Thursday 15 September 2005 07:57 am, Douglas McIntosh wrote:
> Thanks foar the tip. I need something for rescue and file transfer
> in the dedicated computers in my lab. These have all of 8 Mb of
> memory and Knoppix won't run. Likewise Gentoo. If the early
> versions of Windows will run with 8 Mb why won't Linux???
>
> Douglas

Early versions of Linux will run also, I think Debian 2.2 'Potato' is
from that era and loads on 8mb ram, or farther back ver 2.1 'Hamm'.
Try: http://www.debian.org/distrib/archive.

> > Slax is a Live Linux distro based on Slackware. They have several
> > variations. Sounds like you may like the "Frodo" edition which is
> > only a 47MB download.
> >
> > http://slax.linux-live.org/download.php
> >
> > "SLAX Frodo edition is the console base for all other SLAX
> > releases. It doesn't contain almost anything, only full working
> > Linux command prompt and drivers."
> >
> > Personally being a Windows admin I like the desktop. I chose the
> > "standard" edition which has KDE 3.4 ready to go. I booted into
> > the Live system and had it installed onto a laptop in under 30
> > minutes.
> >
> > Not to mention you can use the Live Scripts on this sight to "roll
> > your own" distro.
> >
> > Good luck,
> > Tim
>
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