I've had Slackware 8 running successfully on a P133/32mb RAM/1.2gb hard drive (with usable GNOME even, though I ditched it for AfterStep since that runs nicely on just about anything). Might want to give that a try, if you want to slim it down a bit. http://www.slackware.com. -- Michael Vieths Foeclan at Visi.com On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Karl Bongers wrote: > My main objective is to try and avoid software bloat. > The laptop is a P200/48Mram/6G harddrive. > I fear if I load RH7.2, the poor thing will just grind itself > into oblivion swapping desperately to try and shake the almighty > software bloat beast. And I will have 500MB left from my 6G drive > to play with :(. > > So I'd like to load an older distro and then do selective upgrades, > trying to avoid too much GUI bloat that cloggs the arteries. > Not sure if Debian is the solution, but its worth a look. > > > On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 02:53:27PM -0500, Munir Nassar wrote: > > Dan Drake said: > > > On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 at 12:33PM -0500, Munir Nassar wrote: > > >> > This is the perfect opportunity to try out Debian! > > >> > > >> /me hands the poor soul a copy of RedHat 7.2 to guide his soul > > > > > > !!! > > > > > > /me elbows munir out of the way, with Debian woody CDs for the very > > > intelligent, not-poor-at-all soul. > > > > SEE! SEE! i am shocked!!! shocked i tell ya! but i should have known > > because only a debianite would repay kindness with bodily harm > > -munir > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > http://www.mn-linux.org > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >