Yes, forgot about that one Nick, also Feater linux (I prefer feather actually, but we 
all see things differently).  They also are knoppix derivitives, designed for low spec 
machines and laptops.

Lance

-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
Sent: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 16:44:03 +1300 
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Newbie Advice 


almost any distribution should run a kernel and a console on a machine
like that BUT running a gui is a different matter.

try http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

or you can, as i said, do almost any distro for command line only.

for ages i ran a mail/web server on a 486.


On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 16:36:57 +1300
Kevin Cosgrove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I have just been given an old computer and I thought I could use it to learn Linux on
> It has 32 mb ram,  4 gb HD,  and 166 cpu
> 
> Any ideas on what os I could use to learn
> Ciao
> Kevin

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Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>




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