[ale] Lightweight Linux with X

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I can't help you with Debian, but I've had the best luck with Slackware
when installing Linux on low end machines.  I recently installed it on a
486 with 20 mb memory.

Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> 
> I know many of us are worrying about getting Linux SMP to work properly on
> our octo-Athlon deep-red-MHz 16PB monsters, but I have a somewhat different
> problem at hand.
> 
> I need to set up a junker for a new home school.  I have 486es on hand, with
> 12-32MB and one or two 340MB-800MB drives available.
> 
> I'm pissed at Red Hat because they're pulling this "Sorry, your computer
> doesn't have enough RAM to run Red Hat Linux" crap a la Microsoft even at
> 20MB.  It looks like Debian is not complaining.  However, I don't have much
> Debian experience and I'd like to know, in advance of trying to do it if at
> all possible, how to install Debian from floppies via an Internet distro
> mirror such that I can get X going and a low-footprint WM (open to
> suggestions).  I have done Debian this way before and I did get a running
> machine, but without X.  At that time, I also found myself a bit flummoxed
> w.r.t. getting exactly the packages I needed and little or nothing else.
> 
> I expect to find and install various free edu software on this thing for the
> kiddies and banish MS in the process.
> 
> Any general suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> - Jeff
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