PPCNerds: Damn Small Linux 0.8.2: A Quick View

[ Thanks to Carl for this link. ]

"Today I happened to have some free time right after the September exam session. And I happened to have the need to test a light-weight Linux distribution for some old hardware i am going to setup soon.

"My problem is this old hardware: in the past the only distribution booting on this kind of old x86 machines (486 boxes, 16 Megs of ram) was Debian. For some reason even Slackware still refuses to boot on these dear old computers. I chose to avoid a big distro and consider a mini-distribution..."

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