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| Thread ID: 61304 | 2005-08-31 06:08:00 | EXTREMLY Mini Linux Distro | Dannz (1668) | Press F1 |
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| 384916 | 2005-09-01 05:15:00 | Vector or Slackware. Slackware 9 needed 8MB Ram IIRC | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 384917 | 2005-09-01 10:29:00 | Slackware 10.1 will install easily because: 1. you can activate swap during the install to help with your lack of RAM; 2. the whole distro comes in "sets" which makes it easier to install the minimum and required software for the thing to run. The problem with other distros is that the installers are very resource hungry - you wont get to find out how hungry they are when they actually run. With only 16mb of ram, you may forget about the GUI, or you may try one of the very very minimal ones like "ion" (but even then xorg/X4.5 and the X apps are still very fat). But as a headless command-line only machine, it will happily run as a router (wired or wireless), a gateway/firewall appliance, a mail/fax server etc. As a desktop, you can use lynx/links browsers, mutt email client, vi/pico editors, p2p, bit-torrent, blah blah blah... |
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| 384918 | 2005-09-01 13:08:00 | Or you could install the likes of TightVNC and use that as your interface to it :) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 384919 | 2005-09-01 20:50:00 | Im going to try small linux as it has many of the capabilities i want, i will let you know how i go | Dannz (1668) | ||
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