[wellylug] Linux on Antique Boxen

[Rob Giltrap - Ubiety Group]

By building it 'From Scratch' http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

Used IceWM, Netscape communicator 4.72, Abiword, Gnumeric and it fitted 
snuggly as there was absolutely no rubbish in there apart from what we 
wanted.

Rob./


Centurion Computer Technology Limited wrote:

>On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 22:58, Rob Giltrap - Ubiety Group wrote:
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>>With the help of Fletch working on the 2020 Trust machine following 
>>'Linux From Scratch' he built a damn fine solution that worked extremely 
>>well with 64Mb and even managed to squeeze in Abiword and Gnumeric 
>>without having to do any real swapping. Unfortunately the HDD died right 
>>at the last minute. Never the less it was quite a nice setup on a 
>>P100/64MB and I was very impressed.
>>
>>Rob.
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>How did he get it down in size?
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>>Richard Hector wrote:
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>>>On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 02:49, David McNab wrote:
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>>>>Bottom line of all this?
>>>>
>>>>64MB is a bare minimum for a usable system.
>>>>Anything less feels like root canal therapy during a hangover with no
>>>>anaesthetic.
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>>>That sounds like a challenge :-)
>>>
>>>How about an evening where we bring along the most minimal system
>>>(hardware wise) we can, with as much functionality as possible?
>>>
>>>Richard
>>>(time to rebuild that old 386 ...)
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