On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:46:15PM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > Since we're off topic and talking about low end machine. I don't know if any > of you guys have heard of this new linux distro on the block called slitaz. > > http://www.slitaz.org/en/
hey that's cool. I love little distros like that. This kind of stuff will keep old low-end machines running for ever. And, having put debian on a couple of lower power Via Epia machines, I can say there's definitely a place for this stuff on low power modern hardware as well. Heck even on high end hardware... the responsiveness of these small, ram-only systems is awesome. > > Very small distro...fits in a 24.8 mb live cd. Can run entirely on > RAM as low as 64MB. Linux kernel 2.6.24.2 and all the good stuff. I > wish i could try it out but I only have old PPC machines lying > around...never owned an x86... can't you emulate x86 in a virtual machine? A
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