[LinuxUsers] Linux for old laptops

[Michael Gorman]

A Quick google shows stage1 and 2 tarballs still available. They recommend
against this now thought, and suggest the use of their bootstrap script on a
stage3 and then to re-emerge core system packages instead. Same benefits i
suppose.
Michael Gorman


On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Dante Lanznaster <dantecl at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Michael Gorman<craterburnsyou at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I'd say if you really want minimal and optimized go Gentoo with a stage 1
> > install. I had some pretty stellar results doing this on old system. Had
> > them up and running gnome with gAIM(When it still was gAIM and not
> pidgin)
> > and a few other apps and using under 100mb of ram.
> >
>
> Didn't they get rid of stage1 possibilities a long time ago?
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