[brlug-general] new Distro

[Patrick P]

We ll we did not want to go with a system that required everything to be compiled during installation as that would take waay to long to suit the average user on an older system. Debian will boot on a 486 and our system as it is put together now uses 55Mb of RAM until you start opening packages. It hass been considered to compile the packages for each processor, but we are not doing that in the beginning due to time and bandwidth constraints. Debian does not provide architecture specific compilation so we would need our own system of ftp mirrors for everyone to install the operating system. At the moment everything is installed from the Debian mirror system.  The functionality we are trying to provide is that of a workststin, along with some multimedia apps for those who want them.
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