[olug] Small old laptop challenge

Jay Swackhamer Jay at RebootTheUser.com
Mon May 4 16:01:37 UTC 2009


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For 486 or lower class machines, I've put Deli Linux on them to make  
them useable, even with 24MB of ram.

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Quoting charles.bird at powerdnn.com:

> That's what I was thinking, one with 2.2 or early 2.4 kernel
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kelly Williams <kellywilliams81 at gmail.com>
>
> Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 10:56:04
> To: Omaha Linux User Group<olug at olug.org>
> Subject: Re: [olug] Small old laptop challenge
>
>
> I would try slackware.
>
>
>
> Bill Brush 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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