[nylug-talk] Distro Recommendation... for an old, cruddy machine.

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On Jan 24, 2008 4:12 PM, Steven Lembark <lembark at wrkhors.com> wrote:
> Gentoo is fairly easy to install and allows you
> to be rather specific on what gets loaded. The
> stage-3 install (only one supported at this
> point) takes about 40 minutes (less if you burn
> an install CD and use local media).

Err, old machine might have slow cpu == long compile times :-(

> You might want to look into optimizing the kernel
> for size also if the system has a fairly specific
> use.

I would recommend Xubuntu or Damn Small Linux...just my two cents here...
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Kristian Erik Hermansen
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