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...DeLi (Desktop Lite): A small, independent distribution. The CD image is only about 130MB, and it is designed to run on really old machines- it can run on 8MB of RAM. Also uses IceWM.

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progressive-bum
May 21, 2007, 5:10 a.m.
Great blog, and suggestions, but I found one distro missing.
I have been using Puppy Linux for a while now, and found it very fast on old hardware since it runs entirely on as little as 128 megs of RAM. Yet, included software is surprisingly complete.
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schestowitz
May 21, 2007, 8:48 a.m.
Yes, I thought the same thing. Wasn't DSL missing as well. It can run on just one or a couple of dozens of megs of RAM, without even touching the swap. It has modern software (and kernel), too.