[NTLUG:Discuss] P-200's and Peanut Linux

[Richard Humphrey]

DOnt forget that these machines would also make great firewall/router boxes.
You can run the smaller distros that only deal with networking/firewalling.
This is somewhat redundant nowadays with the price of cable/dsl routers
getting so low, but would be great learning tools.

-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org]On
Behalf Of kbrannen at gte.net
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 9:39 PM
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Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] P-200's and Peanut Linux


G S wrote:
...
>
> These machines are P-200's, 32m RAM, 2.5 gb HD.      Am I pissing in the
> wind wanting to run Linux with X windows on a machine this small?     Is
> Peanut Linux any good,   Has anyone tried it.    What are the problems
> with it.    Is there a better small distro?      I am trying Knoppix as
> I type.
...

It can be done.  I used to have a Toshiba 1910cs that was a 486-33dx with
12M
of RAM and a 1G HD (HD was not original but upgraded).  It actually ran
reasonablly well with the 16 color VGA X server.  Most people probably
wouldn't care for that, but my requirements were quite modest.  That was
with
the Slackware 3.x distros, IIRC.

I guess the older distros didn't have as much in them so they ran on smaller
machines better.  Don't know for sure though...from time to time I do ask
myself why the older distros ran on smaller/older machines and the newer
ones
have trouble.  I have yet to come up with an answer that completely
satisfies
me, but in reality I probably don't care enough to investigate it. :-)
OTOH,
if someone has the answer, it'd be nice if you shared it. :-)

HTH,
Kevin


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