MuLinux

Mulinux is an distribution maintained by Michele Andreoli with a purpose to make it possible to use very old computers as servers or workstations. Mulinux can be started from floppies, installed to hard disk from floppies and unpacked bz self unpacking archive on DOS/Window system.

Minimal configuration:

4 MB RAM for hard disk istallation 16 MB for start from floppies about 20 MB hard disk space Intel 80486 processor

Mulinux consists of several packages (each of them takes one floppy):

SRV - base server package (web, mail, samba...) WKS - base work station package (mutt, ssh, pgp...) X11 - base X Window environment (VGA server in 16 colors, window managers: fvwm95, Afterstep...) VNC - to use computer as graphic terminal GCC - C compiler TCL - Tcl/Tk + TEX - TeX typesetting system PERL - Perl interpreter with modules EMU - Wine, Dosemu JVM - Kaffe Java virtual machine NS1 - SVGA X server i and part of Netscape Navigator NS2 - second part of Netscape Navigator

"Contrib" packages of other authors are available.

The distribution is not developed recently. The last version is 14r0. There is experimental version called Lepton with 2.4 kernelom.

External links

• Official page