[ale] Lightweight Linux with X

[phrostie]

a little off topic, but back in the early days of RH3.0.3 i thought i
remembered a mini-X server.  my first linux box was a 386 25 with 8 meg of
ram.  I was wondering what ever happened to it(the mini-X).  I have a few OLD
boxes also.

as for the current redhat.  if they will not sell you what you want, take
your business else where.  the beauty of Linux.

On Monday 30 July 2001 11:23, you 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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