Which distro ... for low end hardware ?

[David Nicol]

the answer used to be "slackware"  I suppose it may still be.

That's for machines with less than say 24M of memory.

I'm happy with debian on my boat anchors, but they aren't entirely
memory-starved.

Slackware used to be proud that the "lowmem" install set would work in a box
with 4M.

http://www.sunsetsystems.com/tip-lowmem.php3
is from 1999, but google indicated that a lowmem install is still part
of 2004-dated
slackware repositories.

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David L Nicol
getting even worse at mindreading as I get older