[TriLUG] lightweight linux distro/pc giveaway

jason at monsterjam.org jason at monsterjam.org
Mon Mar 26 12:13:29 EDT 2007


so what did you decide on this?

Jason


On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 06:03:17PM -0400, Jim Ray wrote:
> Gentoo is too tough for my little ole pea brain.  If I go that route, me
> thinks I'll seek your services on loading it :-)
> 
> On that note, any chance of getting you to load an email server for me?
> I've got 7 employees and need a local server that will do POP3 on the LAN as
> well as IMAP plus do that little smart host thingie for SMTP so I don't have
> to authenticate with anything off the LAN.
> 
> Regards,
>  
> Jim
>  
> Jim Ray, President
> Neuse River Networks
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of
> > jason at monsterjam.org
> > Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 1:24 PM
> > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] lightweight linux distro/pc giveaway
> > 
> > (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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