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250 MB Linux distro for old laptop
Name: BlizzardPimp Date: August 21, 2002 at 19:09:56 Pacific
Comment:
Howdy folks,
I have to make do with an old laptop for about a month due to reasons beyong my control. Its got a 520 MB HD, 24 MB RAM, external CD ROM. I'm looking for a pretty solid Linux distro that will only take up about 1/2 of my 520 MB disk rewources, they are very valuable. It has 95 and 95 office on it now, and i lost the disk and want to use Linux anyhow. Any thoughts/recommendations/etc would be most appreciated.
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