Sabi ni Rene noong Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:56:36 +0800 (HKT): > what we got here in the philippines that i can donate to elementary > schools is pentium 200 and 32 mb ram at about $60 > > do you know of any easy-install gui linux distribution that can run > happily with the above configuration?
Kabayan! Is this a stand-alone PC, or will it be part of a GNU/Linux network? If the former, Taran has given you some tiny GNU/Linux distros, to which I might add Puppy Linux. Haven't tried any of them myself, though, except for Damn Small Linux, and only briefly (I myself use FreeBSD). If, OTOH, the PC will be part of a GNU/Linux network, examine the possibility of the Linux Terminal Server Project (ltsp -- http://www.ltsp.org). The local guru is Marvin Pascual of Q Research Software (mpascual at qsr.com.ph). Marvin's president of the Philippine Linux Users Group (PLUG), and has a presentation on ltsp at http://ltsp.sourceforge.net/index.php. You'll need a good server with lotsa RAM -- far as I remember, the base is 128MB, then approximately 50MB per user. Depending on the applications, it doesn't have to be "server-grade" either. A mid-level desktop PC costing PHP40,000 should do (that's just over US$700). > i really need such a distribution, most linux now are bloatware in terms > of ram and hardisk John "Maddog" Hall may be in a better position to address this, but I don't think the kernel itself has grown that much over the years. It's the userland stuff that's bloating. IOW, Linux itself isn't that bloated, it's GNU/Linux that is :D. -- Daniel O. Escasa [EMAIL PROTECTED] contributor, Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com) personal blog at http://descasa.i.ph -- http://www.fastmail.fm - mmm... Fastmail... _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
