PPCNerds: Damn Small Linux 0.8.2: A Quick View | Linux Today

PPCNerds: Damn Small Linux 0.8.2: A Quick View

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 4, 2004

[ 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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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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