Robert R Stephens wrote:
> How small of a computer does one need to run a GUI with a Desktop
> environment on a linux system?

Recently i was looking for a small distro to install at my old
486SX-4Mb-100Mb. At www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions are a couple
of small distro's, and i tried BasicLinux. It runs o.k.
You need a basic DOS ( i installed full, 10 Mb). From there you
can run a RAM-linux ( I needed a 4Mb-ram supplemental pkg) . Next a HD
install. ( supplemental HD package)
The zImage stays in a DOS directory, and the text-mode installa-
tion takes 7Mb. There are pkg's for icewm (bas-html.tgz),mc, Slackware 3.5
add-ons, it's in the docs.
Actually i subscribed to this mailinglist, because it was somewhere
mentioned , and expected hundreds of users, writing thousands of mails
about it.

adriaan















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