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Lightest of the Light Linux

Posted by michael on from the he's-not-heavy-he's-my-brother dept.

An anonymous submitter writes: "This looks kind of interesting for those who want to run a feather weight Linux on really old hardware."

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  1. Sweet! by dirvish · · Score: 5, Funny

    That should run blazingly fast on my 100 Mhz pc. It currently just displays "operating system not found" upon boot up.

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  2. Re:cobalt qube by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    whoever said you need alot of computing power for a server is wrong

    sorry that was me, let the beatings begin

  3. Um... by miketang16 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shouldn't someone host a mirror in case we slashdot IBM? =)

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    1. Re:Um... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      You need to get out more.

    2. Re:Um... by JourneymanMereel · · Score: 4, Funny

      > Microsoft beats that...

      That's because Microsoft is running IIS on windows so they have all the overhead of a GUI, SMB, WINS, AD, etc. and need to have more machines to get the same effect :)

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  4. Been doing this for years by BurritoWarrior · · Score: 4, Funny

    I already run a very svelt Linux. it's called SuSE.

  5. Re:From the other end of the discussion... by MrEd · · Score: 4, Funny
    ...how can I "light-weight-o-fy" my existing Debian installation?


    "apt-get remove -purge *", right?

    :)

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  6. Re:uClinux + busybox by Istealmymusic · · Score: 5, Funny
    Imagine being able to put a full-featured Debian package on a business-card-sized mini-CD's that you can always keep in your wallet!
    I love it already. If I'm over at a girl's house I can pop it into her box when she's not looking and show her the wonders of Linux!
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  7. Imagine a beowulf cluster of these! by SensitiveMale · · Score: 3, Funny

    Or install linux on an AMD Hammer.

    Same computing power.

    1. Re:Imagine a beowulf cluster of these! by evilviper · · Score: 3, Funny

      That reminds me... Some time ago I overheard a conversation about Linux packages.

      Person 'A' asked person 'B' about the 'i386' notation on all the RPMs.
      'B' said that it meant it was compiled on a 386.
      'A' asked how someone could compile all those files on an old 386.
      'B'managed to convince A that they have a cluster of hundreds of old 386's where they compile all the source code into RPMs.

      I nearly fell over, laughing.

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  8. Re:Try Slackware by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny


    * 386 processor - check! (1.4ghz)
    * 16MB RAM - check (512mb)
    * 50 megabytes of hard disk space - check (40gb)
    * 3.5" floppy drive - doh!

    oh well, cant win 'em all.

  9. Re:Older OS's?!?! by larry+bagina · · Score: 3, Funny
    I did shoehorn Win98 onto a 486/66 for my burglar alarm,

    must resist urge to post snide comment ...

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  10. Re:uClinux + busybox by .milfox · · Score: 4, Funny


    Shouldn't you be popping something else into her box instead? Something a little bit more, ah, interactive?

    Yeesh. :P Youse slashdot geeks.
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  11. Re:Older OS's?!?! by Cyno01 · · Score: 3, Funny
    Win98 onto a 486/66 for my burglar alarm
    windows...security... that makes my brain hurt
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  12. Re:Older OS's?!?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I did shoehorn Win98 onto a 486/66 for my burglar alarm, but it's not a pretty sight."

    where do you live again?

  13. Re:Older OS's?!?! by AndroidCat · · Score: 3, Funny
    For the basic functions, I could have used my Micro Coco MC-10. Monitor a reed switch, take keyboard entry, network, trip an alarm relay, even Windows can manage that.

    But my cunning plan was to have a talking clippy-type character pop up on the screen and annoy any burglars away. ("You seem to be trying to break into the apartment...") I'll just have to make do with a wonderfully robotic text-to-speech card. I might still keep Windows on that machine, FreeBSD on others.

    The networking part is so that when he switches that machine off, he gets a surprise. ("No Jacque, not this dam...")

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  14. The TRUE lightest of the light by xenofalcon · · Score: 2, Funny

    You can drool all you want over these things, but I'm waiting for a version of Linux that doesn't even need a CPU, let alone a computer.

  15. Great article is just the start by Call+Me+Black+Cloud · · Score: 3, Funny
    This first in the series is titled "Leverage older hardware and break the hardware/software upgrade cycle"

    Future installments in the "breaking the cycle" series include:

    Maintaining your 1932 Pierce Arrow

    Connecting cable to your Philco Predicta

    Making ice last through the summer

    Rolling your own condoms

  16. Lthe lightest linux ever by supergiovane · · Score: 3, Funny
    A linux kernel with a statically linked 'hallo world' program as init (From power up to Bash prompt howto).

    Hey, it wouldn't do much, but it's linux, it boots from a 386 without hard disk, and most of all it doesn't require a keyboard. Obviously, if you want a decent performance you need a P4 2.8 GHz.

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  17. Finally! by genka · · Score: 2, Funny

    A featherweight OS for my paperweight PC!