John Wendel wrote:
Andy Green wrote:
> taharka wrote:
>
>
>> Don't let those specs fool ya though. My present hardware firewall,
>> "m0n0wall" (FreeBSD based) runs on a 32MB CF card & rivals
commercial
>
>
>
> 32MB! Luxury! Why when I were a lad you could get a very decent Linux
> install in 8MB of JFFS2. kernel, Busybox, PHP, all mod cons.
>
> Despite having reservations about the Bubble-era track record of some of
> the Big Ideas that were printed when Wired had that lovely paper, and
> the fact the project ended up with Redhat only after trying to get in
> bed with Demonic Forces that were the first choice, the debloat
> discipline is sure to pay off for Fedora whatever happens with this OLPC
> project.
>
> -Andy
>
I've never tried it, but <
http://damnsmalllinux.org> looks interesting.
I think I'll dig out the old 350MHz AMD from the junk box and give it a
try.
You might also want to investigate Puppy Linux, then.
Here is an interesting site I looked at a few months ago
when my girlfriend was investigating (at my instigation)
installing Linux on her machine.
http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php
Mike
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