Red Hat Commits To MIT's $100 Laptop

[Mike McCarty]

John Wendel wrote:
> 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.

You might also want to investigate Puppy Linux, then.

Here is an interesting site I looked at a few months ago
when my girlfriend was investigating (at my instigation)
installing Linux on her machine.

http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php

Mike
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