Re: [school-discuss] Distros For Old PCs

["Vedran Vucic" <vedran.vucic@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I have good experience with Vector Linux that works fine on machines
such as 330 Mhz, 128 MB RAM etc.
You can find Vector Linux on
http://www.vectorlinux.com


Best wishes,

vedran

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Michael Shigorin <mike@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 11:16:25AM -0700, Joel Kahn wrote:
>> I add a vote for Damn Small Linux.  I've been experimenting
>> with it from a LiveCD booted on my WinXP machine. The distro
>> seems to offer fast response and good tight usage of RAM &
>> other resources. It does not come bundled with a whole slew of
>> apps, of course, but it ought to be a solid foundation to build
>> on.
>
> Just in case one would actually need apps -- ALT Linux 4.0
> contains some optimizations for RAM usage (for those interested:
> linking with -Wl,--as-needed by default); I checked the installer
> and KDE3 desktop on PIII-500/64M, installed just fine and KDE
> alone ran OK (that is, with konqueror, but without openoffice):
>
> http://ftp.altlinux.org/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/4.0/Desktop/4.0.3/iso/
>  ftp://ftp.altlinux.org/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/4.0/Desktop/4.0.3/iso/
> (en/ru/uk images differ only in default gfxboot language)
>
> On a similar note -- I'm working on releasing terminal server
> distribution with ALTSP5 technology out-of-box, so far it's
> 4.0RC2 which would happily run on Pentium 133/32M and brings up
> an i586 diskless thin client with 16M RAM either:
>
> http://ftp.linux.kiev.ua/pub/Linux/ALT/beta/ltsp-server/
>  ftp://ftp.linux.kiev.ua/pub/Linux/ALT/beta/ltsp-server/
>
> As a matter of fact, 23 KDE+Firefox sessions would eat up some
> 1100M RAM (1200 with one more openoffice).
>
> BTW it's base of Linux Terminal distribution involved in Russian
> school pilot project.
>
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>  ---- WBR, Michael Shigorin <mike@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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>