WTF?! NO floppy in Lucid or in Meerkat!

[rikona]

Hello Liam,

Friday, September 24, 2010, 7:15:50 PM, Liam wrote:

LP> On 25 September 2010 02:47, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
>> I'd be interested in distros that DO support somewhat older boxes
>> well. Doesn't need to be very 'small', just run well. Any suggestions?

LP> There are not that many left, I fear, and those that do still work are
LP> the ones where you have to have a fair degree of expertise.

LP>  * Debian, although recent versions will not run on 80486 and I
LP> believe Pentium 1 support is going away soon.
LP>  * Slackware, which I think runs on more or less anything still.
LP>  * Vector Linux, which aims to be small & quick, but is not exactly
LP> tiny any more. Based on Slackware.
LP>  * ZenWalk is fairly small but neither terribly
LP> legacy-hardware-focussed nor terribly easy to tweak, in my (fairly
LP> minimal) experience.

LP> Damn Small Linux is no longer being updated, sadly.

LP> Of Ubuntu variants:
LP>  * Xubuntu is not that small any more.
LP>  * Lubuntu is looking promising. I have run it successfully on a P4 with 256MB.
LP>  * As Lubuntu is gathering speed, the future of U-Lite is uncertain.
LP> It may rise again in a new form - I chat to the maintainer regularly &
LP> he is still deciding what to do.
LP>  * The current version of Puppy, v5, is called "Lucid Puppy" and is
LP> now Ubuntu-based as well.

Thanks for the pointers. I'll try those on some of the older hardware. 

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 rikona