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

[Chris Cox]

G S wrote:
> Wow, what great feedback.    You guys are the best.   This time and 
> always.  Thanks
> Garion

Even the "fat" distributions will go onto this kind of platform
as long as you don't install something like KDE or Gnome.  I have
a P200 with 32M running squid and proxying smtp and pop in an office
of about 15 folks.  Server NEVER goes down (except when the
pull the plug.. oops).

That server happens to be running RH 7.1, but I will probably
move it to SuSE at some point just for the ease of management.

> 
> jsinor at comcast.net wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 04 May 2003 15:32:20 -0500
>> G S <falconjetflyer at netscape.net> wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> I am the proud owner of about 40 p-200 computers and I am toying with 
>>> loading Peanut Linux
>>> on them before sale.     I tried on one Compaq 4000 200MMX machine
>>> with 32 meg of RAM
>>> and had a tough time getting it to install.   It was kind of a 
>>> progressive affair.      
>>
>> <snip>
>> Interesting that you are selling some of these, as I am interested in
>> some extra "victim" boxes for some testing I am doing.
>>
>>  
>>
>>> 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?        
>>
>> <snip>
>> As for your X11 question, it depends.  If you want to use the later
>> Gnome and KDE, you probably are in trouble. You will probably want
>> 256-512MB of swap just to be safe, though this seriously eats into your
>> 2.5GB disk. I would recommend Slackware or Debian as they have
>> minimalistic installers and are easy to get on small/old/slow 
>> hardware. They are also fairly widely known.  I would also recommend a 
>> more
>> minimalistic window manager such as icewm/twm/fvwm2 as this will give
>> you more acceptable GUI performance. (You can still *install* KDE and
>> Gnome and even use their apps if you wnat to).
>>
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