[TriLUG] lightweight linux distro/pc giveaway

[jason at monsterjam.org]

(taking one more whack at this dead horse) thats why youd want to  run Gentoo. so you can be as lean and mean as you 
want, or as fat and bloated as any modern-day M$/linux binary based distro. Nothing is installed by "default".

Jason

On Sat, Mar 
24, 
2007 at 12:46:48PM -0400, 
Magnus 
wrote:
> 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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