Re: latest views on distros

de retief 01/15/2007 01:48

On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 22:54:21 GMT, Joe Silver <joesilver@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>mike <mike@nosuch.co.uk> wrote in
>news:Xns98B8E242172Amikenosuchcouk@130.133.1.4:
>
>> Also perhaps a smaller, but easy to install distro for the older
>> puter; I don't really feel up to command line stuff, so it has to be
>> graphical.
>
>I've had good luck with Puppy Linux. I have a pretty fast, new-ish
>computer, but Puppy is also intended to squeeze the greatest amount of
>performance from old hardware. It boots from a CD, runs entirely in RAM
>(at least 128MB is recommended), and can save your settings from one
>session to another (on either your hard drive or the CD itself).
[SNIP]
>http://www.puppyos.com

Agreed - installed on PI 266Mhz w 64Mb Ram - runs from hard drive
works fine as a 'browser' machine - not too many windows open
though... :)

retief
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