Re: Re: Linux on Schools PCs...

To: fred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-india-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Re: Linux on Schools PCs...
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <mallet@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 08:06:17 +0530
Cc: prakash@xxxxxxxxxx
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At 12:37 AM 12/12/00 +0530, Frederick Noronha wrote:

Another query from a non-techie: Any suggestions on the type of Linux
flavour would be best suited for older PCs? This could have enormous

Debian / Slakware will do for this sort of thing. Or older versions of anydistro (but those are not too secure, have bugs etc)

FreeBSD 4.x openly claims that it will run on (min) a 386 with 5 MB RAM(and they apologized for the increase from 4MB in the docs) ;)

suggestions below? On Vector Linux and Small Linux and Mu Linux?
Another other perspectives? Any suggestions?


that is "underkill"

Best - read the etherboot howto and set up lots of dumb X terminals runningof a single (more powerful - early pentium, say) PC


        --suresh