[GRLUG] ELS

[Bob Kline]

http://www.ibiblio.org/elemental/

One of the 300 or so candidate
distributions that has not made it
on to Distrowatch just yet.

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The Elemental Linux Server (ELS) is designed from the outset to be a
minimal, no-frills server distribution that allows you to run modern
network services on Intel PC hardware that is about ten years old.

There is no GUI, everything is console-based. There is no package manager,
packages are installed from .tar.gz files. There is no administration tool,
all configuration is done by manually editing files in the /etc directory.

There is also very little bloat in the ELS distribution.

ELS will easily install on the vintage 1998 Pentium II computer that's
sitting in your basement collecting dust. Don't throw it out, reanimate it
as a home file server or a personal web server.
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Yes, I just happen to have a
couple of boxes running old
war-horse ASUS mother boards.
P2T4 I believe, with 166 MHz
Pentium 3's.  Back from the days
when Intel wanted to copyright the
number "5", or some such nonsense.

Maybe this distro would be of use
for the RPi crowd?

  -- Bob
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