Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Kae Verens wrote:
>>> I've run Fedora on a P166, but it was painful.
>>> Likely you were using the GUI? He wants console-based, hence he wont be
> running X, GNOME, etc... hence Fedora will do as well as anything else.
no - I was using the box as a mailbox for a small company. the most
noticeable speed problem was in disk IO, so I guess the speed of the CPU
had little to do with it.
that said - there are many tiny distros available - check out
back-issues of Linux Format, for instance - every second issue has one
or more micro-installations on the coverdisc
Kae
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