[ale] Building new kernals on old hardware.

[Bruce]

PuppyLinux is pretty good... have played around with it a little. I have 
a 266mhz NEC laptop with 128Mb RAM and it runs really fast on it.

James Sumners wrote:
> I don't see any problem with the kernel. I think your real concern
> should be the GUI environment. XFCE would probably work well if you
> want a full desktop environment. Otherwise, you will probably want to
> stick with a window manager only.
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> On 6/15/07, Ned Williams <nedj10 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Afternoon aler'ers
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>> I was wondering if anyone on the list has messed with any of the small
>> footprint distributions and if in doing so made any modern apps work, namely
>> firefox and jre?
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>> I have been kicking the idea around of picking up an old 266mhz sub-notebook
>> and just building out the OS enough to facilitate basic function,
>> browser,ssh, EDGE/GPRS support. The only real question is shrinking the
>> modern kernal down enough to be happy on a machine with  < 128 megs of ram.
>>
>> thanks,
>> Ned Williams
>>
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