Mighty quiet in here

[David Bandel]

On 11/20/06, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

I thought the last time a distro just installed and ran everything was
like in 1997.  I still remember berating both Caldera and RH in the
day (and just about every day during 1996) for doing that.  Guess
we're back to square one again, coming full circle (or full square if
you like Monopoly).

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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