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By: Reaching back again: ByzantineOS « Motho ke motho ka botho

Reaching back again: ByzantineOS « Motho ke motho ka botho — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:08:32 +0000

[...] to be confused with Bonzai Linux, ByzantineOS is earmarked for i586 machines. It will supposedly run on 32Mb of memory. It takes up [...]

By: twitter

twitter — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:51:48 +0000

Knoppix from 2003 would detect “low ram” and switch over to a lower resource demanding window manager.

By: anon

anon — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:20:38 +0000

Ahh. I was thinking if it runs well that box, it should run well on the old box with 28 MB RAM.

I run BeOS on both (and legit Windows 98), but the 64 MB box might get it though, solely for the laughs of trying out such ancient distros.

Who knows? I might upgrade a box and give it a resurrected version of your GTK1.2 remix… maybe with Lucid.

Now I’m just rambling though.

By: Marcus Moeller

Marcus Moeller — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:04:25 +0000

As the original author of Bonzai Linux I am glad that the distro is still somewhat ‘alive’

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Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:55:53 +0000

[...] Reaching way back: Bonzai Linux Here and there, where I can, I have come across some workable distros that will run on a 150Mhz Pentium with only 32Mb of memory. It’s a rarity though, and even more unusual to find one that will boot and install, in that small a space. [...]

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:25:11 +0000

I didn’t check the exact memory usage, but that machine has only 32Mb and a 150Mhz Pentium MMX in it, and it was running without too much stress. I am fairly confident it’ll do fine on 64Mb. This is, after all, a distro that had its last stable release in 2005.

By: anon

anon — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:59:29 +0000

How much memory does it use? And processor?

I’m going to test it on my 64 MB box, but if it’s speedy I might run it on my other, much older and slower box.