Comments on: Tale of two Ubuntus

By: anon

anon — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:58:19 +0000

K.Mandla must be the ultimate blasphemer with his tricked-out Thinkpad…

By: The also-rans « Motho ke motho ka botho

The also-rans « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:10:08 +0000

[...] A few things have proved usable, but only in the slimmest, narrowest definition. Slitaz is the big winner, of course, and the age-old TinyFlux got a small nod. And of course, an outdated Ubuntu console. [...]

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Links 25/9/2010: The 5 Dollar KDE Challenge, Etc. | Techrights — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 16:06:36 +0000

[...] Tale of two Ubuntus The console version of Ubuntu 10.04, as I expected, wouldn’t even start. My experiences earlier this year foretold that a machine with a meager 32Mb of memory wouldn’t get past the grub menu. [...]

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 12:43:16 +0000

Ridgeland, you’re late to the party.

http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/good-but-bad-slitaz-at-150mhz-32mb/
http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/slitaz-10-on-450mhz-k6-2-256mb/
http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/03/29/greetings-from-slitaz-3-0/
http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/howto-install-a-console-only-slitaz-system/
http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/slitaz-to-the-rescue/
http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/or-you-could-just-use-slitaz/

And so on. …

By: MK

MK — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 12:12:24 +0000

Lo and behold, 256MB is heresy here.

By: Ridgeland

Ridgeland — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 11:26:16 +0000

Try Slitaz. I have it on a G5-200, a Gateway 2000 PC with a Pentium 5 running at 200 MHz. It does have 256 of RAM though.

By: Calvin

Calvin — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 14:32:59 +0000

“Perhaps one day it shall become a toaster, and make small children happy by giving them warm toast to eat”

I lol’d hard.

You need to get a 376 PC though. Run early Slackware for an exercise in pain!