[ale] Minimal installs on low-end hardware (was RE: [semi-OT] A local lurker

[Brian D. Pitts]

Pope jonnyX <jonnyx at mindspring.com> writes:
>Like most geeks, my non-techie friends give me computer-related things
>that are "obsolete" (hence my need to purge before moving;
>alas, the hardware was all snagged in under 24hrs, else I'd offer it
>here). I recently acquired one of the old "butterfly keyboard"
>IBM Thinkpads; it's a model 701c with a 486DX4/100 CPU, 24M RAM, 2G
hdd,
>lots of extra goodies. I'm thinking maybe a glorified terminal for a
>Cisco-2511 hooked up to my routers & switches and/or maybe a config
>"server". What minimal distros would y'all recommend, and
why?

http://delilinux.de/ 0.6 worked well for me on similar hardware.

DeLi Linux is a distro made for old hardware. Machines from 386 to Pentium
I with 8 to 32 MB RAM are considered as target systems. DeLi Linux uses
lightweight software whereever it is possible. Nevertheless DeLi Linux
provides a graphical Despktop with an office package, web browser, e-mail
client, pdf viewer and games. But of course there are also the ususal
tools for console and development tools, like gcc 3.3.6 and perl. A full
installation of DeLi Linux needs not more then 350 MB hard disk space.

DeLi Linux 0.7 is a complete rewrite from scratch. It?s no longer based on
another distribution, but it uses some tools from Slackware and from Crux.

The most important changes are:

Based on uClibc 0.9.28 (instead of glibc). Glibc is pure bloat.

Kernel 2.4.33.3. In earlier versions Kernel 2.2.x was used, but on
high demand of users Kernel 2.4.x will be used from now on.

A ?stripped-down? Xorg 7.1. This version of Xorg has only the basic
features, which means no direct rendering or other ?bloat? features.

A BSD-like ports system (borrowed from Crux). With this ports system
users will be able to add easily new software to DeLi Linux using the port
repositories from Crux.

DeLi Linux is available for free at http://www.delilinux.de

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