Re: compact distributions for old equipment

[Malonowa <malonowa@wanadoo.fr>]

Jim Wildman wrote:

> You can make a meaningful machine with a 486/33 and 32M of RAM.  This is
> what I've given my children on my home intranet.  They run XWindows, and
> WordPerfect.  They have shell access to the server where they use Pine for
> email and Lynx for browsing.  All graphic viewers are disabled, so that
> effectively censorts most things.

Which window manager are you using?


I've just setup one of my Linux boxes to run a 4bpp X server. Not so bad. You
could do some pretty neat stuff on one of these. We're just too spoiled
thinking 8bpp is a bare minimum these days.

Can anyone out there recommend the most featureless window manager there is -
with source code.

If I can get my hands on one and enough tech. info. to modify it your in for a
big surprise.

Roman.