[Techtalk] A distro for old machines...

Patricia Fraser trish at thefrasers.org
Fri Nov 28 20:06:20 EST 2003


Bud,

>   I am interested in trying to build a desktop distro that will work
> on old computers. By old I mean it should work on a P MMX 200Mhz+
> with 32MB ram and a 4MB video card.

Could I suggest you contact Computerbank here in Australia? They have 
been doing this for a couple of years, starting from 486 machines, and 
have a distro and lots of how-to documentation available. You can find 
them on www.computerbank.org.au.

Cheers, and good luck with it!

-- 
Trish Fraser, Sunbury, Australia
GNU/Linux user #283226  counter.li.org
andromeda up 20 days, 2 hours, 7 minutes, 39 seconds (but who's 
counting?)
kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdk



More information about the Techtalk mailing list