Smallest footprint "daily use" Linux installs.

[Hal Duston]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 11:11:40AM -0500, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 June 2007 09:19:42 am Hal Duston wrote:
> 
> > > Some people talk about Linux extending the life of old hardware - their
> > > old hardware must be a lot newer than my old hardware.
> 
> > Yes, I don't run anything older than a Pentium anymore.
> 
> > model name      : Pentium 75 - 200
> > stepping        : 5
> > cpu MHz         : 100.248
> 
> So what release of what OS do you have on that?  I have a 200MHz pentium I use 
> for a firewall, it runs a fairly out-of-date version.

root at charon:~# cat /etc/slackware-version
Slackware 11.1.0
root at charon:~# uname -a
Linux charon 2.6.17.13 #1 Sat Sep 9 01:11:49 CDT 2006 i586 pentium i386 GNU/Linux
root at charon:~#

I haven't yet attempted 2.6.21.3 from slackware-current.

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Hal Duston
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