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[Damian Turner-Steele]

Thanks for the advice. Will post back with the results of my own personal
installfest. (I have four machine to resurrect). I will need to wait for
Telecom to give me back full speed Broadband before I can download anything
again. Who cares about unrestrained broadband speed. Give me uncapped
bandwidth.

 

Damian 

 

 

8. Re: Older Hardware (Dirk Pilat)

 

 

"Damnsmalllinux. No competition.

 

Actually, if I may be so bold (and controversial), it's the best  

designed distro out there. Excellent support, great community, and it  

just works. Even on a 486 with 16mb.

 

D"

 

 

17. Re: Older Hardware (Denise Bates)

 

Cut-down distros, such as DamnSmallLinux, Puppy, Austrumi _might_ have 

all the features that you need, but they can sometimes be a bugger to 

install on a low-specced machine (I often find it easier to whip the 

hard-drive out and use another, faster machine to do the installation). 

A full distro, such as Slackware will install OK (you will need at least 

32MB of ram to run X properly, even with a lightweight window manager).

 

Whether a winmodem will work depends on which model, and even then, most 

of the are pretty crummy. I wouldnt bother with them anymore, as there 

are lots of ultra-cheap used proper external modems about, from about 

$5-00 at places such as CashConverters or even the Salvation Army!