[plug] Religious debate - editor wars

[Matt Kemner]

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, quoth Ben New:

> I tried running knoppix on a 486/sx33 recently and it wouldn't get to
> the prompt.  It got 90% thru the process then just hung.  (booting into
> runlevel 3 that is).

No surprise, Knoppix runs from RAMdisk and I doubt you could squeeze
enough RAM in a 486sx.

However, Debian woody does the job well on my 8MB 486sx25 laptop
(my WaFreeNet router)

and vim runs nicely on it.

 - Matt