Re: small linux

On Sun, 14 May 2006 15:44:55 -0700, nick wrote:

hi guys. I have an old ibm aptiva that I would like to turn into a
linux box.
The problem is that it is from 1996 and only has 32 Meg of ram and
about 2.8 gig on the hard drive. Is there a linux out there that I can
download for free that I can install on a machine like this?

thanks

I have installed and run Elive on a P166 with 64mb RAM. 32 is pretty
minimal - you won't get a very well featured GUI. Both memory and disk
space is pretty cheap. How fast is the CPU?


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