[ale] small distro for old hardware + kids

[William Fragakis]

what is pokier than a laptop drive? maybe a laptop cd-rom? ;-)

If you go the Live CD route, take a look at Puppy Linux as it's meant 
to fit into 128  mb. I haven't been able to get it to work on my 
elderly laptop project but it might be worth a look.

I'm running Ubuntu on a PII 233/96 mb ram Toshiba. It's poky but 
useable. I'd think it would run fine on a K6-500 and more ram. It has a 
bunch of kid games (do the full install and do GCompris, too - good for 
the younger kiddies). It's an easy distro to install. Not a lot of 
options at install but it might be what you are looking for.

If you decide to go Knoppix, there's a Kids' Knoppix CD available that 
is more likely to contain what you want (except for Flash). It's a 
couple of years old, now, but still kid-oriented.

regards,
William
On Feb 28, 2006, at 11:17 PM, Jack Schneider wrote:

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> Robert Story wrote:
>> So, now that I've solved my flash problem, I'm looking at other 
>> distros for
>> this old laptop (K6-500MHz, 128MB ram). DamnSmallLinux is indeed 
>> small, but
>> doesn't seem very user/kid-friendly.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
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> Got a cd drive in it? Get Knoppix...
> Jack
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