[olug] Small old laptop challenge

T. J. Brumfield enderandrew at gmail.com
Mon May 4 15:57:03 UTC 2009


I think even DSL needs 32MB of RAM.  Though some of the specialized
distros that are designed to serve as routers have very minimal
requirements.

-- T. J.

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Bill Brush <bbrush at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, so I had a relic of an earlier age come across my desk a few weeks
> ago, and I have this growing urge to try to do something with it to
> make it useful.  It's a Thinkpad 701cs with the unique butterfly
> keyboard.  Processor-wise it's a 486DX4-75, and it has 24MB of RAM.
>
> It has a PC-card slot, and I might be able to dig up an ethernet PC
> card, and it has a floppy drive.  No CD drive though.
>
> Anyone know of a distro that will run on this old beast?
>
> Bill
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