From: Adam Flinton 

Tony Ingenoso wrote:

> Got a better shot with Debian than anything else on ancient hardware.
> The default kernel runs on a 386 and things like MCA support are present
>  automagically.
>
> Debian makes perfect sense in a H/W limited environment.
>
> Adam Flinton wrote:
>
>>
>> BTW I find it odd that most of these are coming off debian (as in this
>> case & in the case of ubuntu).

Gentoo is very good in things like that.

But then....you have to wait while everything compiles....it does make one
keener on cli apps as waiting for gnome or kde to compile can be....quite a
wait.

Adam

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