Just remember, brand ex-lease machines may be had for low hundreds.
Sometimes its just not worth your time.
I used to do a lot with ex-lease through old work, but far less now.
However I still have an account. If anyone wants to band together for a
bulk purchase please email crig...@criggie.dyndns.org off list.
Christopher Sawtell wrote, On 26/01/09 15:20:
On Monday 26 January 2009 15:09:21 Payne, Owen wrote:
Yes but on a machine that old, compiling a gentoo install even with a
minimal package installation will take the best part of 2 or 3 days.
You didn't read the totallity of my posting!!!
Safer bet is something like puppy or dsl or one of the others that
abound.
-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Sawtell [mailto:csawt...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, 26 January 2009 2:55 pm
To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz
Subject: Re: Distro for a single use machine
On Monday 26 January 2009 11:37:12 Payne, Owen wrote:
You could try a cutdown version or spin yourself a distro with only
the things that you need on it
-----Original Message-----
From: Linux on Back2Go [mailto:li...@back2go.co.nz]
Sent: Monday, 26 January 2009 11:36 am
To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz
Subject: Distro for a single use machine
Hi I was wondering if any recommendations for a Distro for a single
use machine.
I have an slimline IBM that was running 98 something on a network,
most bullet proof thing we ever had. I was wanting it to run GRAMPS
and maybe a very thin wordprocessor and nothing else but a keyboard,
mouse and monitor. So I can hand it around the family to do GRAMPS
things with it, Any suggestions, where to find Distro etc, I will be
in Chch next few
days too if that helps, cheers Kevin also on 0272497326 but text is
best.
How much Disc and RAM have you got available?
These days Linux needs a bit more RAM than was usual on 10 year old
machines, but it will run very happily off an eight Gig disk.
Consider Damn Small Linux, or Puppy Linux, or indeed spinning your own.
If the latter, I'd think about starting from one of the Gentoo stages.
Before anybody jumps down my throat, remember that there are Gentoo
binary
packages for most of the system, and as he only wants two apps., they
can be
installed directly off a cd, or a binary repository.
Consider AbiWord for the word processor.
--
Craig Falconer
