[oclug] Tiny Desktop Linux recommendation

[Mike_Kenzie at cscoop.ca]

Arcana oclug at lists.oclug.on.ca
>Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:35:59 -0400
>
>I have an old laptop (Pentium 100, 40 megs of RAM, 800 meg hard drive) and
I
>would like to install a small small desktop-capable system on it.  I have
the
>following requirements:
>
>- Modern, graphical web browser (probably Phoenix... anyone have a
>recommendation?)
>- A real text editor (gvim will suit me just fine)
>- Decent font support (TrueType at the very least - this implies XFree86
4)
>- An MP3/CD player (XMMS will probably run all right)
>- Something that can edit RTF files graphically (not OpenOffice, it
probably
>won't work on a P100)
>
>I'm wondering if anyone has a Linux distribution that they would recommend
for
>me.  It has to fit on 800 megs (preferably 500).

I came across this one last night.

http://www.linux.ca/library/linux/minideb.shtml

As part of the Learnux Outreach Program, volunteers at the CLUE Linux
Centre have developed a Linux distribution
designed for especially low end hardware, the minimum system spec being a
486DX/33, 16MB RAM, 300+MB HD
and 800x600 display.
It consists of a Debian 2.1 base install with a customize post installation
script for installing very specific programs such as icewm, AbiWord,
Netscape 3.04, CBB, Plan, Addressbook, some games and other miscellaneous
programs.
It also has a customized icewm menu to integrate all of these programs into
the window manager. All in about 135MB of disk space!