Re: [PLUG] mini Linux

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>]

I've had good experience with D(amn)S(mall)L(inux) on a 65 MB system 
booting from the CD. It has a basic and functional gui. I mostly use it 
for emergency boots and repairs.

ChrisB. wrote:

> Do you have 64MB of RAM or HDD space? If it is 64MB of RAM, how much 
> HDD space do you have? I know you can get “damn small linux” onto a 
> 50MB drive and ZipSlack (slackware) onto a 100MB drive.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org] *On Behalf Of 
> *rekaye1005@earthlink.net
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 12, 2005 5:01 AM
> *To:* plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> *Subject:* [PLUG] mini Linux
>
> I am looking for suggestions...
>
> I have a old IBM PC, 64Mb ram.
>
> Being frugal, and trying to squeeze the last bit of functionality out 
> of everything,
>
> does anyone have a suggestion for a (mini?) version of Linux that would
>
> function with this spec?
>
> I would set it up as an ISP dialup device, with a basic firewall using 
> iptables.
>
> Would it be asking too much to have a tiny little gui?


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