Zen Walk in the Thin Puppy
Before I pulled the CD-R drive, I did boot the Thin Puppy with Zen Walk 4.2, another of the Linux distributions that are supposed to run well on lower-spec computers. I did it before I boosted the memory from 128 MB to 256 MB, so it all looked pretty good until I loaded up Firefox, at which point the CPU went crazy and killed X. Then, when I tried to shut down, it wouldn't do it all the way. Maybe things will be different with 256 MB. It made a helluva difference for Puppy Linux.
By the way, Zen Walk is based on Slackware, and it ran, while Xubuntu, based on Debian would not boot.
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Steven Rosenberg aims to learn what he does not know. He writes about it here.
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