> my name is Daniel, from Brasil, somehow in the same situation as > Gio: looking for some linux distro well suited for desktop's use in > old computers. always a good thing. > Until now, the best distros I found with the caracteristics pointed out by Gio were the following: > - Vector Linux (actually in version 4); > - RULE project. there has definitely been mention of the RULE project before. not sure about vector linux, but i'm slightly familiar with it. > Let me tell you about RULE project: it's a really great idea! It's a > project aiming at working on existing distros, trying to build an > installer which will install a basic package of that distro. Until > now they have been working with RedHat. They developed an installer, > called "slinky installer", which can install RedHat in as low as > 12MB RAM computer!! impressive! > I think that other developers could join the efforts of RULE to > develop installers for other distros, like Debian or Debian NP. i'm not sure exactly how we would... debian-installer can work on as low as 32MB machines, possibly lower. it has a lot of nice features and flexibility. http://debian.org/devel/debian-installer > A question to this list: is the Debian NP project somehow stopped? i would like to think of it as stalled more than stopped :) most of the debian-np developers have been working on other projects, from what i understand. so there's always room for more folks! currently, i would like to make an installation CD similar to the debian-edu/skolelinux project's installer, based on debian's sarge (pre)release, and use freegeek's freekbox3 package list(s) and debconf selections, and make a few profiles out of it. i'd also be interested in making a low-resource alternative that's similar. freegeek has started getting enough hardware that they're able to ship out 300MHz+ PII desktop computers with 128MB ram. only a year and half ago, it was 166-200MHz PI's with 80MB of ram, and a year before that, 100-166MHz with 48MB ram. so freegeek has some experience with the lower-end desktop linux machines, but less so with each passing year :) http://skolelinux.org http://freegeek.org http://cvs.freegeek.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/freekbox3/ at the moment, i have considerable free time to work on this stuff, though it may not last very long. live well, vagrant
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