[CS-FSLUG] Linux Advice

[Josiah Ritchie]

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 22:31:19 -0600
"N. Thompson" <n.thomp at sasktel.net> wrote:

> Tim, are you sure Gentoo would compile with only 8 MB of ram?

You dont have to compile it on the host system.

> I don't think most distributions would run on that, even older ones as long as there is so little ram, however as is characteristic for me I'm going to suggest that on old computers you use old distributions. Storm was a good one but I can't remember what the minimum requirements were for that.

You might take a run around the Gentoo forums. People have installed Gentoo on machines of your size before. I can promise it ran well, but it has happened. If you want GUI, your going to have a slow system pretty much no matter what.

JSR/