[TriLUG] lightweight linux distro/pc giveaway

Magnus magnus at trilug.org
Sat Mar 24 12:46:48 EDT 2007


Jim Ray wrote:
> I’ve got a circa win98 pc from a neighbor that won’t load my favorite
> Ubuntu.  Any recommendations on an alternative flavor for an older machine?


I pretty regularly have installed OpenBSD on first generation pentiums 
and it works great.  Probably far more appropriate than any popular 
modern linux distro.

Linux has gotten pretty porky since its lean mean days in the underground.



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