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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. Re:Don't run a GUI for a start. by danamania · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Real sys admins use a command line anyway (JOKE).

    IMHO It's not such a bad joke to run a machine command-line-only for a while, or permanently. The greatest service you can do to your general knowledge of all things computing, is use a broad range of machines/interfaces outside your common experience. When I started with linux, I just accepted it was mostly commandline stuff (that was a year ago) - and for my uses, it mostly still is. I've run PCs, Macs, Linux from only a command line, Linux with a GUI, Amigas, Dos, Windows, Netware - a bit of everything.

    Jump into the command line-only thing for a while. run something lightweight on a 486 and enjoy the learning experience :)

  2. uClibc is not going to replace glibc by KidSock · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I see a lot of positive comments about uClibc and it may work great for you but uClibc has a few sticky points. There are current issues with scanf, floating point format strings with printf, strcol, i18n support (e.g. iconv), some networking stuff, no threads, etc. This is great if you're building little commandline utilities like busybox but don't expect to be able to run something like a Java VM.