> 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.  

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crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota 
Ruthless Debian Zealot       |http://www.mn-linux.org/ 
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