[Rule] Care to discuss favorite lightweight apps?

[C David Rigby]

Hello,

RULE itself is no longer an active, "stand-alone" project. Most activity
descended from RULE takes place on the u-lite site:

http://u-lite.org/

Stop by and check it out when you get a chance.

Regards
CDR

On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 14:18 -0700, ml at distasis.com wrote:
> Noticed the mailing list seemed pretty quiet.  However, was hoping to run
> across other users who have older systems they're not quite ready to give
> up on and compare notes on keeping them running and what applications they
> like.
> 
> I have a Sony laptop 500 MHz pentium with 64 MB RAM and sneakernet (no
> direct Internet connection for it).  Had been hoping to run a more modern
> operating system on it (similar to the RULE philosophy).  Didn't realize
> how hard it would be to find just the right distribution or how hard it is
> to keep a system set up.  So far, I've tried DeLi Linux, Absolute (which
> no longer has install disks that work on 64 MB machines) and Vector Linux
> Light.  They all worked okay on my machine, but just didn't seem to be
> what I was looking for.  Also, I usually ended up having to compile most
> of the applications I wanted from source each time.  I did notice, if I
> use light-weight applications, performance on the machine is what I would
> consider perfectly acceptable, although not as good as when I had an older
> operating system on it.
> 
> Am getting a growing list of applications I like that run well on
> lightweight machines.  As a programmer, I don't mind patching a few
> programs that are no longer supported, just to try them out and get them
> running again.  Would love to hear from others on what lightweight
> applications they find useful and to compare notes on the subject.  It
> would be nice if there was some way to share work on getting lightweight
> applications running for older systems.  Look forward to hearing from some
> other people in similar situations.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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