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12/20/2005: "Guns don't kill people, people kill people..."

Soundtrack: Howard's Alias - The answer is never

...and hedgehogs do too [if they've got a gun]. Another setback for the blue sky in games campaign.

On a slightly less silly note, you may recall me mentioning a little project a while ago to turn a knackered old p166 box into a fileserver, giving me somewhere to shove all my music and stuff and also letting me have a play with this Linux malarkey.

I've picked this up again lately, and have been looking around for a distribution which will run on a pretty low spec machine but still be reasonably newcomer friendly. However all I have found myself wondering so far is why it seems to be so hard for people producing Linux distros to stick, somewhere on there websites, a couple of lines saying "Requires approximately XXX MB hard disk space and XXMB RAM*". Surely not difficult?

Since I'm trying to avoid actually spending any money on this project (other than eventually putting a rather large hard disk in it), the search goes on.


*the correct answer will hopefully be less than 2GB and 32MB.