> If you went with slackware or linuxfromscratch I'm sure you could get > more bang for your buck than I did with Debian. Apt on a 386 has to be > the saddest thing ever. It takes about 15 minutes to build the > dependency tree. I know there's a lot of cruft in my install (no, I > *don't* need exim, thanks), so I'm not pushing the envelope any. Yeah, there are too many packages in recent versions of Debian hardware - the package database overloads old hardware. You are better off sticking with older versions, or finding somewhere with a scaled back package database. -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Never laugh at live dragons |Dmitry's free,Jon's next? http://faircopyright.org _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list