Re: 486SX Thinkpad distribution recommendations

From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com)
Date: 11/21/03 

Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 20:25:09 -0500

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On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 18:06:39 GMT, Robert Young
  <rochyo@shaw.ca> wrote:
> A friend was given an old laptop, new in 1993 I think. IBM Thinkpad with
> a 486SX CPU, 12Mb RAM, 190 Mb HDD, and a PCMCIA modem. It has ports to
> allow a PS/2 mouse and a VGA monitor to be attached.
>
> I expect that newer distributions may require more resources than this
> machine has. How 'far back' should I go. I believe that he will probably
> use this for email, internet browsing, and some games. I have a lot of
> old of old versions on CD including Debian 1.3.1, Red Hat 4.2, OpenLinux
> Lite (Caldera), Mandrake 6.5, Slackware 7.1, and an older Redhat
> (~1999). Other distributions are readily at hand in the linux manuals at
> the public library.
>
Look for BasicLinux, it's a lightweight distribution based on Slackware. 

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