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Modern Linux Distribution for (Very) Old Computers

Posted by timothy on from the daddy-what-were-floppy-drives dept.

macemoneta writes "The blueflops floppy-based distribution may be just what many Slashdot users are looking for, to revive old hardware. This is a 2.6.11-7 kernel based tiny distribution, that runs very well on my ancient 486sx25 with just 8MB of RAM. It's text-mode only, at the moment, but it does support hard drive installation, and includes an ssh2 client (dropbear)! Many distributions have moved away from boot floppy support, indicating that the 2.6 kernel is just too big. This distribution proves that where there's a will, there's a way."

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  1. My first post is really a first post ! by aneeshm · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is my first post on Slashdot , and it seems to be really a First Post ! Am I the only one to have achieved this ? On the other hand , this is good news , because I have a friend with a 486 , who wants to use it as a toy , but cannot , becuase no modern OS can run on it .

  2. Re:Dumb terminals... by bcmm · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Oooohhh...

    I forgot aaxine... Would a LAN have the bandwidth to watch DVDs over SSH with aaxine running on the server side?

    --
    # cat /dev/mem | strings | grep -i llama
    Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.