Mighty quiet in here

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 21:28 +0430, Kirk wrote:
> well since its so slow I have a question.  I have a Toshiba satellite
> 4000CDT with 16mb RAM.  I don't even know for sure why I brought it
> with me.  I'm in a remote location for work and have some time on my
> hands.  Is there any flavor of Linux that would run on this to play
> around with?  Last time I did anything with it, I tried to load W2K
> but processor said " aw hell no".  It likes W95 its so old.  But I
> didn't want to toss it out.  I've been meaning to try something out
> but thought I'd ask.  

I ran an early version of SlackWare on a 486 with 16 megs of ram pretty
easily. Tiny Linux may still be in existence. Does that thing has a CD
drive or floppy? I couldn't get FC6 to load on my PIII machine with
128megs of ram, just wouldn't do it, even in text mode. Damn. I guess
the deal is to keep all the newbies from CRYING about haveing to read a
fricking manual or a webpage, so they enable every service imaginable,
from the get go. So, you have tens of daemons running you won't have
running otherwise. Each one consumes it's bit of ram. I got FC5
installed to it, but it ran slower than a hiccuping sparrow in a head
wind. I went into services and turned off at least 10 services I didn't
even have use for, it runs better now. Hopefully, you'll find something
nice and small! Ric