Re: [opensuse] Favorite distro for OLDER hardware?? (i386->i586 / PIII & AMD K6-2 types)

Mike wrote:

I've seen puppy and DSL recommended bu others, I have an old laptop
with 8 meg RAM with is too small for either of them so I'm trying an
older slackware on it.

I was able to install that on an old 386-16 with 2 meg of RAM. I gave
up on recompiling the kernel after 2 weeks, upgraded the ram to 4 meg
and it finished in a day.

I've got one of those - a 386-SX25 - what did you install on it -
slackware?

yes I think it was still the 1.1.59 kernel



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