OT: "Best" Linux Distro?

Allison ajp166 at bellatlantic.net
Thu Dec 1 13:48:48 CST 2005


>
>Subject: Re: OT: "Best" Linux Distro?
>   From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
>   Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 11:21:38 -0800
>     To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
>
>On 12/1/2005 at 1:01 PM Allison wrote:
>
>>Same here.  There are a few that barely run on anything less than p-III
>>class hardware.
>>
>>Since I have an abundance of older 486class stuff I use Freebsd 2.2.6
>>and a 7 year old copy of Slackware or Caldera OpenlinuxV2.3 when I 
>>want a linux box.
>
>For the "look what we can do with a single floppy boot" category, it's
>pretty hard to beat the old QNX demos:
>
>http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html
>
>Cheers,
>Chuck

Then there was NewDeal Office. All you needed was dos3 or higher. The
version 3 demo I have ran ok on 40mb or less of disk.

Allison



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