[oclug] Tiny Desktop Linux recommendation

[Brad Barnett]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 20:48:26 -0400
Bart Trojanowski <bart-oclug at jukie.net> wrote:

> * Raymond Wood <raywood at magma.ca> [030611 15:11]:
> > > 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:
> > 
> > I would wonder whether Debian GNU/Linux, or some other standard
> > distributions would work, if you deliberately avoided
> > unnecessary bloat.
> 
> There are a few projects that attempt to make Debian smaller...
> 
> http://www.csoft.net/~dummy/robert/bookmarks/technology/os/linux/debian/small/index.shtml
> 
> B.

I've install Debian Potato on a 50 meg hard drive, with room to spare.  I
even included an 8 meg swap partiton. ;)

The real trick is to _not_ install anything but the base system, and then
install what is needed afterwords.  All I needed was bind and sendmail,
and it worked great.

That is, unless I needed to receive an email with an attachment ;)