Red Hat Commits To MIT's $100 Laptop

[John Wendel]

Andy Green wrote:
> taharka wrote:
> 
> 
>>Don't let those specs fool ya though. My present hardware firewall,
>>"m0n0wall" (FreeBSD based) runs on a 32MB CF card & rivals commercial
> 
> 
> 32MB!  Luxury!  Why when I were a lad you could get a very decent Linux
> install in 8MB of JFFS2.  kernel, Busybox, PHP, all mod cons.
> 
> Despite having reservations about the Bubble-era track record of some of
> the Big Ideas that were printed when Wired had that lovely paper, and
> the fact the project ended up with Redhat only after trying to get in
> bed with Demonic Forces that were the first choice, the debloat
> discipline is sure to pay off for Fedora whatever happens with this OLPC
> project.
> 
> -Andy
> 

I've never tried it, but <http://damnsmalllinux.org> looks 
interesting. I think I'll dig out the old 350MHz AMD from the junk box 
and give it a try.

Regards,

John