Re: What Distro?

["Bob T. Kat" <bobkat79@charter.net>]

the trick is not to try it at home (not ours anyway, and the pritchards will
prolly be working the vid cam so they will be safe), as far as a distro for
that limited hardware it really depends on what your trying to do with it,
if you want it to be a small grade server (file print no X etc.) then you
could do the non-graphical install on suse and you would be fine, if you
want a desktop or a more usable system i would say debian would be your best
bet, i had woody on a 486 with 16 meg ram and 250 meg hdd running as a small
server with no x just fine (scary i know), debian seems to be very
minimalistic and they have apt (much love for the apt ;-), i would think
from their track record of supporting older hardware that they would be your
best bet for a fully functioning system, just my .0083 pounds though

BTK KSC
----- Original Message -----
From: David Leathers
To: silug-discuss@silug.org
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 9:10 PM
Subject: What Distro?


What would be a good distribution to put on a old Pentium 166 with 71 megs
of ram and sis video card. Two hard drives one 2. gig's the other 500 meg's.
It is on a wired network  with a router.

Hope you all don't get hurt at that party?


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