Re: [Nolug] freshmeat.net: DeLi Linux 0.1

On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 19:34, Dave Prentice wrote:
> Joey,
> This is wonderful! One of the problems I've had at my school is
> that distros such as Redhat now require well over a gig of hard drive
> space, which is far more than is available on most of these old
> donated machines. Now maybe I can set up a bunch as standalones.

1 word: Debian. Minimum for CLI operation is 12MB RAM and 400MB HDD.
The latest version (3.0) still supports kernel 2.2.x and X 3.3.6.

Note that DeLi is still beta, and Debian is solid. With a little bit
of work (a Debian-geek on this ML could help you), you can create a
mirror on your server of *only* the packages you desire, then do a
net-install from each station (with automatic recursive package
installation).

> Thanks for the tip.
> Dave Prentice
> prentice@instruction.com
> http://www.originsresource.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joey Kelly <looseduk@ductape.net>
> To: nolug@nolug.org <nolug@nolug.org>
> Date: Monday, November 04, 2002 11:57 AM
> Subject: [Nolug] freshmeat.net: DeLi Linux 0.1
>
>
> >About: DeLi Linux is a Linux distrinution for old computers, from 486
> to
> >Pentium MMX 166 or so. It's focused on desktop usage. It includes
> email
> >clients, a graphical Web browser, an office package with word
> processor
> >and spreadsheet, etc. A full install, including XFree86 and
> development
> >tools, needs no more than 300 MB of harddisk space.
> >
> ><http://freshmeat.net/releases/102310/>
> >
> >--
> >Joey Kelly
> >http://kellynet.dhs.org
> >
> >(Inside a nuclear plant)
> >Aaaarrrggh! Run! The canary has mutated!
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