[Tfug] Linux? Debian? Kubuntu?

[Bryann Melvin]

> 
> If you're working with a 16MB box, you better not plan on using anything
> more memory hungry than fvwm and netscape navigator 3!
> 
> Brian
> 
> Quoting Earl <earljviolet at juno.com>:
> > Richard,
> >
> > I am a newbie with Linux too. I am trying to use dumpster computers 
> > to run Linux. Here is what I have found so far....
> >
> >>>>>> I am trying to learn enough to install a non-Microsoft operating 
> >>>>>> system on about a dozen older (486 and Pentium class) computers 
> >>>>>> that have been donated to a non-profit organization. The users 
> >>>>>> are all OK in a GUI environment but would avoid a command line 
> >>>>>> like a scorpion.
> >
> > I have a 486 with 16 MB of memory and am having problems getting 
> > things to work but I think this is because of the memory limits. I 
> > have a Pentium 1 with 32 MB of memory and am running Mandrake 8.1 or 
> > something like that with that version of KDE and it is OK. Easy 
> > install.
> >
> > The problem seems to be to be limited memory more than the processor 
> > which just means real slow. I've tried Ubuntu and Kubunto with some 
> > luck and they were easy installs but haven't tried them on the 
> > pentium yet. I plan to. I don't know if the Ubuntu 4.10 would work OK 
> > or not.

If you're playing with those old machines... I have an "pentium upgrade"
133mhz 486 with 32mb ram and a couple of other 486 machines ISA and EISA
laying around that I will probably never need again. 

Also have a SuSE 7.3 distro which will default to XFree ver3.3.6 for
many of these older machines/graphics cards.

That said I have quite a few Ubuntu "hoary" and a few breezy" cds left,
but those really need a minuimum of 64mb to really run ,especially on
the live CD.

ALSO "Blackbox" window manager should run OK on older machines.
That was my standard wm on XFree86 for OS/2 (running on EMX in a VM) so
that I could use GIMP on OS/2 before migrating to linux.

Bryann