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Re: Any OS good for a 2.1 gig hard drive?

  • Subject: Re: Any OS good for a 2.1 gig hard drive?
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 11:04:10 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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__/ [ Martha Adams ] on Saturday 05 May 2007 09:00 \__

> <monty1945@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1178345455.836259.80470@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> It's got decent RAM, 144, so I'd like to get this old laptop to the
>> point where it will be a good backup machine.
>> Any suggestions?
>> TIA.
>
> I have an observation and two suggestions.
> 
> The observation arises from my playing recently with an old
> machine I made up from fleamarket parts back at the start
> of things -- it uses an 80286 processor.  For the work that I
> do -- fiction text -- that machine was good enough then and
> today, it's still good enough.  Faster and more complexified
> OSs of all sorts, have probably cost me more time than ever
> they have saved.  Don't knock simple old OSs until you can
> see how what they can do fits your need.
> 
> My first suggestion is, look into Freedos.  This is an open
> variety of MSDOS -- too slavish, in my view; but I have one
> running in another old machine; and from what I see today,
> it appears much improved now from when I originally
> installed it there, several years ago.
> 
> My next suggestion, which I think has possibility but I have
> no direct experience with it, is Minix.  I think this is the point
> in OSs where Torvalds started thinking and wound up
> writing the first Linux.

It sounds like Damn Small Linux would fit this laptop. For storage purposes,
something even lighter should be available. DistroWatch will have plenty
more to tell. There are specialised distros for this.

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