Re: Old Computers

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 2 Jun 2015 16:46:17 +0100
Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday 02 June 2015 16:28:30 lostson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2015-06-02 at 16:07 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 02 June 2015 14:55:51 Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2015-06-01 at 21:14 -0500, Jose Martinez wrote:
> > > > > Hmm, that is a little disappointing.  But, I can probably run
> > > > > Squeeze. Nothing like stone knives and bear skins!:-)
> > > >
> > > > I think even squeeze would be a challenge (maybe a fun one though!)
> > > > when it comes to ram and disk space.
> > > >
> > > > But there's always vintage operating systems for vintage computers :)
> > >
> > > I thought of DSL.  But it needs an i486. :-(
> > > http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
> > > http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=damnsmall
> > >
> > > Lisi
> >
> >  How about Tiny Core Linux
> >
> > http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/faq.html#req
> 
> Needs i486. :-(

Ah, nostalgia. I learned linux using BasicLinux, which is still around,
and will apparently run on a 386:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/baslinux/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BasicLinux

I still remember that incredible feeling, some many years ago, when I
put the floppy into a Windows box, rebooted, insmod'd the relevant
ethernet driver module, brought the network up, and had an actual
working networked *nix terminal ;)

> Lisi

Celejar