Red Hat Commits To MIT's $100 Laptop
John Wendel
john.wendel at metnet.navy.mil
Wed Feb 1 19:42:42 UTC 2006
Andy Green wrote:
> taharka wrote:
>
>
>>Don't let those specs fool ya though. My present hardware firewall,
>>"m0n0wall" (FreeBSD based) runs on a 32MB CF card & rivals commercial
>
>
> 32MB! Luxury! Why when I were a lad you could get a very decent Linux
> install in 8MB of JFFS2. kernel, Busybox, PHP, all mod cons.
>
> Despite having reservations about the Bubble-era track record of some of
> the Big Ideas that were printed when Wired had that lovely paper, and
> the fact the project ended up with Redhat only after trying to get in
> bed with Demonic Forces that were the first choice, the debloat
> discipline is sure to pay off for Fedora whatever happens with this OLPC
> project.
>
> -Andy
>
I've never tried it, but <http://damnsmalllinux.org> looks
interesting. I think I'll dig out the old 350MHz AMD from the junk box
and give it a try.
Regards,
John
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