I have this, somewhat antique Dell desktop lying in my ‘office’ at home. Talking about the specs, it has a processor speed along the lines of 500Mhz (not too sure) , 128MB of R.A.M and 10GB of hard disk space.
Today, I’m thinking of transforming this box into something pretty useful. Hmmn!!! Now exactly what comes to mind… I have been using Ubuntu for some time now. In spite of the fact that I’m comfortable working in this environment, I want to try something rather challenging but intuitive as well (never mind, that is relative). Come to think of it, installing a light-weight linux distro won’t be a bad idea, to say the least. Without wasting much time I reached for google, and the candidates that first came up where Puppy and DSL (Damn Small Linux), lovely names, innit? But anyways, I’ll go for the latter. 50Mb of Hard Disk space will make for a fresh install, very impressive indeed. So I’ll just grab the ISO and shoot straight away. Obviously, this ain’t going to transform my machine into a super dubba one but for a guy like me I reckon it’s going to be fun, at best. :) Other things I may be looking at is building my own front end GUI’s to the many command line utilities linux provides (this hopefully I’ll do in Python). Without further ado …..

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