[plug] Grannies Computer

shayne shayne at guild.murdoch.edu.au
Sun Nov 3 23:44:57 WST 2002


Maybe the trick is to do a Gentoo-ish type install for the sake of
optimising the crap outa it, HOWEVER I gather that you would need
more biggie sorta disk and a week with the PC to compile the damn thing
up.
Perhaps a BSD variant even? (ugh)

On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 22:01, William Kenworthy wrote:
> Ive seen Mandrake 7.2 reccomended (by Mandrake staff) for low end
> machines due to its much lower overheads than later versions.
> 
> BillK
> 
> On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 21:44, Leon Brooks wrote:
> > On Sunday 03 November 2002 06:15 pm, I am the LinuxAlien wrote:
> > > She has a low end machine (p200, 32mb ram - EDO, 500mb hd, CD-ROM, ISA
> > > Sound Blaster) and needs Linux that will fit her needs
> > 
> > At least double the RAM before you even start.
> > 
> > Cheers; Leon
> > 
> > 
> 
> 




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