Hi Zane Is my P100 with 48meg ram the sort of old dunga you are thinking of?
I can boot W95, Caldera 2.2, Mandrake8, and Peanut in a dos ptn. I would also like help with a compile or 2. M8 disk 1 is on my hd somewhere, should also t/f disk 2. kpackage finds it when I need it. Barry -------------------------- Zane Gilmore wrote: > > I have just had a look here: > http://www.linux.org/dist/list.html > > I found 164 distros listed! > > What I did find was that there are a few distros there that appear to be > designed for really old dunga boxes. > > I know that Nick Elder knows his way around Peanut Linux but is that a distro > that runs well the old vintage boxen? > > When I speak to a lot of people about Linux they ask whether it can run on old > equipment. People who bought $2000 boxes 5 years ago feel hard done by now. > > Is there anybody coming that could get say an old 486 running a (graphical!) > browser and email client? > What distro would they use? > What is the lowest spec machine that can honestly get graphical standard > software going.(that's browser,email,simple wordprocessor/editor) > > I was just think ("wiv my braincell" to quote Chris H :-) > That this might attract those dissaffected people with old dungas if we can > give them a bit more life out of them. > > Thanks, > Zane
