[wplug] Suggested older notebook distro for noob?

[Ghataora, Hardeep]

Windowmaker is still kicking about, I use it on my Windows XP box with
cygwin/X ... http://www.windowmaker.org/
There are lots of options for installing LINUX when a CD-ROM is not
available including over a serial connection if another PC is available.
I guess it comes down to how limited, and how far back you're trying to
go, as LINUX has grown the spec it needs has grown too, remember the
days when X ran on 8MB of RAM? If you have a 486 SX-25 you're probably
not looking to run Windows XP on it, so trying to get Fedora running on
it would be pushing it too. I'm sure it can be done, I know Brandon P
has had success getting LINUX booting on a 486 laptop (it had 2 MB of
memory I believe).

It's all fun!

H

-----Original Message-----
From: Drew from Zhrodague [mailto:drew at zhrodague.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 1:11 PM
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: RE: [wplug] Suggested older notebook distro for noob?


> Have you looked into Knoppix? Doesn't need to be installed (runs from 
> a CD), has openoffice and will give you a good feel of LINUX?

	What about those of us that have really tiny laptops, with no CD

drive, and limited graphics displays?

	I've put Fedora on this old Dell laptop, but it's extremely
slow, 
and twm is just icky. Whatever happened to windowmaker, btw?


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