[ale] new Distro

Jim Lynch ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com
Fri Aug 24 15:59:46 EDT 2007


Jeff Lightner wrote:
> Hmmm - I have an old 486 that had Windows 3.1.1 on it sitting in a
> closet - maybe I'll break that out just to try delilinux.  Failing that
> perhaps I'll dig out my old copy of Caldera since it ran on 486 back in
> the day.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Brian Pitts
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 5:35 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] new Distro
>
> Geoffrey wrote:
>   
>> I would think you could have saved yourself a lot of trouble and taken
>>     
> a 
>   
>> good look at Slackware.
>>
>>     
>
> Today is just the day for starting distro wars, isn't it. How am I 
> supposed to get any work done!
>
> FWIW, the lightweight distro I first used, DeLi Linux, was based on an 
> older Slackware. Their target is 486.
>
> http://www.delilinux.de/
>
> -Brian
>
>   
I've still have two floppies that HJ Lui supported for a while.  The 
first is the boot, it boots linux 0.12 and the second installs a root.  
This worked on my 386SX-16 with only 8 Mb of ram.   I recall it was a 
stretch to get X running on it, but when I went to 16 Mb, all was fine!  
Also I think I had to compile most of the utilities other than a basic 
set.  Kernel compilation on that system was 1.5 hours.  Of course it's 
not much faster now since the kernel is about 100x bigger than it was then.

Jim.



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