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Re: [LUG] Small Magazine

 

peter wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 17:56 +0100, Tom Potts wrote:
> 
> 
> Finally I wish to make the process easier,  perhaps using a very small
> distro, which will run on old machines that, rather than being used as
> door stops can end up under the layout. (This could be important as the
> time will come when we may lose backward compatibility with Old Java
> Running on Old Windoze.
> 

You could look at Damn Small Linux, or even a small install of Debian 
with a lightweight Window manager, XFCE4 springs to mind but I'm sure 
there are more window managers that don't use as much resources and will 
run happily on a low spec Pentium.

Rob

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