Re: 486 laptop...
According to Hannes Mayer,
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:42:11 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > I think plenty of people would love a simple laptop that just works -- I
> > agree a real lightweight wm with a simple editer like Nedit, a lightweight
> > browser and email client, what more could you really need? Knoppix is a
> > great idea to get it running, but how big is the hd? I think knoppix likes
> > nearly 3 gig just to install. of course you can dselect a bunch of crap
> > after words...
>
> Yep, a full knoppix install is about that size - anyway, I just used
> knoppix to verify I could run a window manager at all. I succeeded
> with 16MB, so 24MB will add a little more "speed".
> Possibly the HD will be not larger than 300MB, but there are some
> light weight distros around. "Damn small linux" comes to my mind...
Morphix Lite is cool. And you can run it off the CD. That
way you could use the whole 3G for documents.
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