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Current Newswire: Matthias Ettrich Receives German Federal Cross of Merit Using Windows Is Like... Installing Ubuntu 9.10 Hands-on: OpenMoko WikiReader is simple, appealing Perl far from dead, more popular than you think Microsoft Exchange alternatives Kubuntu 9.10: A Mixed Bag Could Microsoft switch to Linux? Red Hat Virtualization Manager for Windows Only? Creating Ebooks with Sigil Sr Systems Engineer – AIX (TX) Next Step Systems US-TX-Houston Post A Job | Post A Resume Specialty Linuxes to the Rescue Nov 12, 2008, 21 :34 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (2845 reads) (Other stories by Rick Grehan) "Suppose you have an elderly, early-Pentium PC sitting unused under a desk. Being environmentally conscious, you want to put it to use, perhaps as a Web-browsing station, a simple word processor, or running an in-house Web server. But you don't want an operating system that exceeds the hardware's capabilities. "Fortunately, there are Linux distributions specifically designed for older hardware. Two examples are antiX Linux and SliTaz Linux. "antiX Linux has a boot-image footprint that's roughly 400MB in size. Based on MEPIS Linux, antiX was created by MEPIS community member Paul Banham, known in the MEPIS community as "anticapitalista." MEPIS is a popular Linux distribution; antiX is not an official MEPIS project." Complete Story Related Stories: The Pain-Free Guide to Switching Linux Distros(Nov 10, 2008) Examining Alternative Linux Distributions(Nov 04, 2008) Three Linux Distros To Watch And Use(Oct 24, 2008) The 10 Best Linux Distributions(Oct 13, 2008) Surviving the Recession With Free Linux Distributions(Oct 13, 2008) Life on the Cutting Edge - ArchLinux(Oct 10, 2008) The 14 Best Linux Distros(Sep 29, 2008) The Five Best Desktop Linuxes You Haven't Tried(Sep 26, 2008) No talkbacks posted.   Home | Search Talkbacks | Customize View    Top of Page   Enter your comments below: * Your Name: * Your Email Address: * Subject: CC: [will also send this talkback to an E-Mail address] * Comments: Tags allowed:<I>,<B> and <U>. See our talkback-policy for more about talkback content. Fields marked with * are required!

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