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Thread ID: 44341	2004-04-16 07:56:00	need small rpm based distro to use apache emacs and php on	Nigel Thomson (629)	Press F1

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229754	2004-04-16 07:56:00	need small rpm based distro to use apache emacs and php mysql on ok I have a friend who needs the above his machine is a P90 800mB Hd 48 Mb ram network card cdrom etc currently runnig RH7.1 or 7.2 accessed via ssh and runs ok but needs something smaller as he wants to use a more recent version of emacs as the gui interface for emacs is apparently pretty hideous and also he is running out of space, this is just used as a testing server for him and he is familiar with rpm based distros, is there one out there that will do what is required he is looking at going back to redhat 6, but well I think that there must be a better option, a stripped out version designed soly for use as a server or testing server. thanks Nigel	Nigel Thomson (629)
229755	2004-04-18 03:24:00	you might be able to try clarkconnect? I'm not sure if it's rpm based though...	whetu (237)
229756	2004-04-18 03:44:00	I have a horrible idea that a "modern" GUI based emacs will use a lot of your 800 MB disk. :D Similarly, the "modern" GUIs need enormous libraries, toolkits and scripting languages like Python. :-(	Graham L (2)
229757	2004-04-18 03:45:00	peanut linux? http://www.linuxiso.org and search for peanut linux.	Megaman (344)
229758	2004-04-18 03:45:00	just remembered. there is a distro, tomsbrt got it off pcworld. the whole thing fits on a floppy	Megaman (344)
229759	2004-04-18 04:42:00	toms is a recovery disk. It's very useful. But it won't fit emacs on the floppy. Even if you leave out Eliza. :D	Graham L (2)
229760	2004-04-18 23:51:00	I'd recommend Slackware / Vector Linux (Namely Vector for 'aging' hardware). Both come with rpm capabilities although they use slack paks for their main Package Management System. Check out Vector Linux.... Chill.	Chilling_Silence (9)
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