OT: "Best" Linux Distro? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

1 Dec 2005

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Subject: Re: OT: "Best" Linux Distro?
   From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
   Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 11:21:38 -0800
     To: cctalk at classiccmp.org

On 12/1/2005 at 1:01 PM Allison wrote:

 Same here.  There are a few that barely run on
anything less than p-III
class hardware.

Since I have an abundance of older 486class stuff I use Freebsd 2.2.6
and a 7 year old copy of Slackware or Caldera OpenlinuxV2.3 when I 
want a linux box. 
For the "look what we can do with a single floppy boot" category, it's
pretty hard to beat the old QNX demos:

http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html

Cheers,
Chuck 
Then there was NewDeal Office. All you needed was dos3 or higher. The
version 3 demo I have ran ok on 40mb or less of disk.

Allison