I've had Slackware 8 running successfully on a P133/32mb RAM/1.2gb hard
drive (with usable GNOME even, though I ditched it for AfterStep since
that runs nicely on just about anything). Might want to give that a try,
if you want to slim it down a bit.

http://www.slackware.com.

--
Michael Vieths
Foeclan at Visi.com

On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Karl Bongers wrote:

> My main objective is to try and avoid software bloat.
> The laptop is a P200/48Mram/6G harddrive.
> I fear if I load RH7.2, the poor thing will just grind itself
> into oblivion swapping desperately to try and shake the almighty
> software bloat beast.  And I will have 500MB left from my 6G drive
> to play with :(.
> 
> So I'd like to load an older distro and then do selective upgrades,
> trying to avoid too much GUI bloat that cloggs the arteries.
> Not sure if Debian is the solution, but its worth a look.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 02:53:27PM -0500, Munir Nassar wrote:
> > Dan Drake said:
> > > On Mon, 17 Jun 2002 at 12:33PM -0500, Munir Nassar wrote:
> > >> > This is the perfect opportunity to try out Debian!
> > >>
> > >> /me hands the poor soul a copy of RedHat 7.2 to guide his soul
> > >
> > > !!!
> > >
> > > /me elbows munir out of the way, with Debian woody CDs for the very
> > > intelligent, not-poor-at-all soul.
> > 
> > SEE! SEE! i am shocked!!! shocked i tell ya! but i should have known
> > because only a debianite would repay kindness with bodily harm
> >  -munir
> > 
> > 
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