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I personally prefer doing a debian netinstall and grabbing the 
lightwieght packages, but in terms of distros, antiX M8-base, DSL, 
Vector Linux Light, some SLAX distros (Austrumi and Wolvix cub come to 
mind) and sidux work great on 128MB.

baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
> Hi Sindi,
>
> I know this is the BL mailing list, and of course
> Steven is the one who can answer that ...
> i'm just chiming in to let you know that there are two
> excellent linux distros which work for these "newer"
> 'old laptops': puppy and slitaz.
>
> puppy is fairly well-known and does a great job of
> just working "out of the box". the major thing about it
> that i don't like is that it makes you the root user,
> and unlike BL, it's not easy to just set up a "normal user"
> account and work from it. there is an enormous variety
> of different ways to install or otherwise use puppy, a
> regular hard-drive install being only one of the. but it
> is really designed to be run off the live-cd, and so
> being root user is not seen as a problem by the developers
> or most users.
>
> slitaz is currently my very favorite linux distro. i've
> installed it on several laptops which have 128 MB RAM,
> and it works ok on them although it likes 192 MB better.
> but there is also a "slitaz-loram" iso available which
> works on 64 MB. slitaz is a normal linux with regular
> non-root user accounts, and firefox is the default web
> browser. i would say at this point the stable 1.0 version
> is not worth using anymore, go with the "cooking" version,
> which currently has over 1300 packages available in the
> repositories. and the current "cooking" kernel is 2.6.25.
>
> http://slitaz.org/
>
>
> I say all this because to me, BL fills the <128 MB niche
> perfectly and i'd like to see it keep that place.
> The weakest machine i have BL3 installed on is a 1995
> Thinkpad with only 4 MB of RAM. I had to use the DOS
> version of BL for that one, but it works and i still
> have X.
>
>
> -monz
>
> --- On Thu, 2/26/09, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org> 
> wrote:
>
>
> Will there be a kernel 2.4 BL4?  There are now 'old laptops' around for 
> under $50, 300MHz with 128MB RAM.  Cardbus support would also be welcome, 
> as 233MHz and later laptops support it.
>
> Sindi
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