[TriLUG] lightweight linux distro/pc giveaway

[Steven Klund]

Hello Folks!

I'm jumping in late on this topic,, but for a really nice distro for
older pc's  try puppy.  It has a lot in it, easy to use, and very easy
on sytems.
Also,  a new distro that will run on anything over a P500 w/128 ram,, is
elive (elivecd.org.  Lots of eyecandy,,, iso is live cd, so you can try
it and see it it will work on your pc before installing,, as does Puppy.

Hope you find the distro that meets your needs and will run OK

Steve
jason at monsterjam.org wrote:
> theres probably this thing called a "mirror", you should try a few others to see if you can find 
> a faster  string.. ;)
>
> Jason
>
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 06:06:58PM -0400, Jim Ray wrote:
>   
>> Dude...i'm already 77% into iso download of xubuntu.  3 hrs to go at
>> 14.9kB/s.  must have 2 cans and a tight string between us with those blazing
>> rates.
>>
>> Regards,
>>  
>> Jim
>>  
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>> Neuse River Networks
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
>>>       
>> Behalf Of Magnus
>>     
>>> Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 12:47 PM
>>> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
>>> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] lightweight linux distro/pc giveaway
>>>
>>> Jim Ray wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I've got a circa win98 pc from a neighbor that won't load my favorite
>>>> Ubuntu.  Any recommendations on an alternative flavor for an older
>>>>         
>> machine?
>>     
>>> I pretty regularly have installed OpenBSD on first generation pentiums
>>> and it works great.  Probably far more appropriate than any popular
>>> modern linux distro.
>>>
>>> Linux has gotten pretty porky since its lean mean days in the underground.
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