Re: [Nolug] linux on an old laptop

arch may run well too. also there is damn small linux, or even slackware.

On 8/6/06, Dave Prentice <prentice@instruction.com> wrote:
>
> Bart,
> I have a Dell MMX with only a 2 gig hard drive and about 92 meg of memory.
> It runs Vector Linux very nicely.
> Dave Prentice
> prentice@instruction.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Bart Pittari <pittari@gmail.com>
> *To:* nolug@nolug.org
> *Sent:* Sunday, August 06, 2006 7:41 PM
> *Subject:* [Nolug] linux on an old laptop
>
> I have a Toshiba Tecra 8000 from the MMX generation CPUs. Is there a
> flavor/incarnation of Linux that would work well with it?
> I've been doing some looking online (linux-on-laptops.com ) and it looks
> like I can put Ubuntu on it. I found an older article dated about 2000 that
> said RedHat 5.x worked with it (*chokes*).
>
> I know when I first got it, it had Win98 (not even SE, just Win98) and I
> was able to put NT 4.0 on it (was trying to make it run for someone else
> before they gave up on it), but not 2000. Any thoughts, insights on how a
> more updated OS would react with that class of CPU?
>
>
> BP
>
>

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