On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 03:43:11PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 11:13:13AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > I know there are minidistros like DSL but DSL is small as in how much > > can they pack onto a small CD, not how to shoehorn into 16-32 MB ram. > > I'm also not sure how they keep up with security fixes. > > My biggest problem is that there is not OS designed to be great for a > > stand-alone old small computer. An OS that can both fit on small > > resources, and be kept up-to-date without a separate build machine.
> > Linux's target is the modern desktop and the focus is on keeping up with > > new hardware. The BSDs keep the drivers for old hardware but patches > > require building and that building relies on gcc which isn't optimized > > for use on old systems. > > I think they're all 32+ bit, but if you're looking for something to > play with, you might check out something like menuet or > kolibrios. Both are OSes written in assembler and are pretty cool/fun > thigns to play with. Pretty low resource requirements. I'll look into it. However, mostly, my old boxes get used as thin clients, so they have to have ssh and preferably X. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
