07-29-2006
Damn Small Linux immediately comes to mind.
With sufficient creativity, you can even run
gentoo on old PC's... I've got it running on a Pentium 233 with a 1.2GB hard drive. I had to do crazy things like turn /usr/share/doc into a compressed filesystem, then mount it with unionfs... This is not reccomended if you lack insanity and obsessive compulsion.
The number one bottleneck with old PC's is going to be memory. There's no getting around a multitasking OS needing more memory than a single-tasking thing like DOS. Give it at
least 64 megs. Old mem is cheap and plentiful if you can find it.
Last edited by Corona688; 07-29-2006 at 02:38 AM..
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purple-url-handler
purple-url-handler(1) User Commands purple-url-handler(1)
NAME
purple-url-handler - Python script to handle URL with purple
SYNOPSIS
purple-url-handler [-URL]
DESCRIPTION
Python script to handle URL with purple.
OPTIONS
Usage: purple-url-handler URL
Example:
purple-url-handler "xmpp:romeo@montague.net?message"
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWgnome-im-client |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface stability |Volatile |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
purple-remote(1), purple-send(1), purple-send-async(1), attributes(5)
purple-url-handler Manual, http://pidgin.im/
NOTES
Updated by Lei Ju, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2006, 2007.
SunOS 5.11 02 Apr 2008 purple-url-handler(1)