[wplug] The Minimalist Desktop

[David Gerard Matthews Jr.]

There was an article about this on Slashdot the other day.  I think it
was called something like "The Lo-Fat Linux Desktop".  And yes, you can
run X on a box like this, especially if you go with an older version of
X and/or an older kernel. I ran X on a 25 MHZ 486 with 12 MB RAM a few
years ago.  (Slow, but usable.)
-dgm


Brad Hoover wrote:
> 
> Hey All,
> 
> Hope everyone is having a happy holiday season and a
> good new year.  Question:
> 
> I have an old p-100 machine with 16megs of ram (I will
> probably upgrade this), 850 mb harddrive, and 512k of
> video ram.  My question is: can someone suggest a
> distrobution to use on a machine this bare?  Plus, I
> would *like* to get x and a desktop running on it.
> So, what desktop/window manager would work well on
> this type of machine?
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> Brad
> 
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