Brian wrote: > > I'm not looking to start a war here but I'm looking for comments / > suggestions on a good distro. I've got a 386 laptop with 4 MB RAM and a 60 > MB hard drive. The real solution here would be "upgrade your laptop", > but this is what I have. My primary use for this machine is Cisco work. I > basically need a laptop that has VT100 terminal emulation (minicom is > nice), dialup, and ethernet capability. I need something light, fast, and > stable as my laptop is none of these. I've been born and raised on Redhat > but dabbled with Debian. Slack is beyond my understanding. FreeBSD is > just plain obscure. Any suggestions on a tight, fast OS to accomodate my > needs? There are a number of small distributions listed on this page: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/ Not all of them are small, obviously, but there are a few. Also, you might want to try modifying ZipSlack (variant of Slackware that takes up less than 100 MB) for your needs: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/zipslack/ Or, if you're bored, have some shell programming skills, and know how to use `which', `ldd', and `strip', you can roll your own (`man init' would be the place to start). Of course, considering that you only have 4MB of RAM, you might want to ditch bash as a shell and go with something a little smaller. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Eat drink and be merry, / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ for tomorrow they may \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) make it illegal. [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ]