[wplug] Suggested older notebook distro for noob?

[Scott Bourns]

Thanks for all the help, folks.

He's hunting down some RAM, right now.

On 2/25/04 2:02 PM, "Bryon Gill" <bgtrio at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Installing debian from floppies then running apt-get dist-upgrade could
> work; this is what I did with my 200mhz thinkpad.  I ran blackbox as the
> window manager, but kde2 was surprisingly ok with 96M of memory.  Not sure
> it would do so well with under 64 though.
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Drew from Zhrodague wrote:
> 
>>> 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).
>> 
>> Thanks, Hardeep. Generally I do a floppy boot, and install over
>> the network. Since the laptops I have are all <166Mhz, I have just thrown
>> a distro on there, and use like Mozilla from one of the larger boxen in
>> the house. Old laptops make great portable terminals, which is all I
>> really want out of them.
>> 
>> I mean -- who wouldn't want a small terminal in the kitchen?
>> 
>> 
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