[Gllug] Newbie needs help!

[Peter Childs]

Ken Smith wrote:

>FWIW: For fun I installed W95 on a 25MHz 386 8M Mem 200Mb HD Mono Laptop.
>Takes an eternity to boot but it works!
>
>Ken
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: gllug-bounces at gllug.org.uk [mailto:gllug-bounces at gllug.org.uk] On
>Behalf Of Richard Jones
>Sent: 20 October 2004 16:00
>To: Greater London Linux Users Group
>Subject: Re: [Gllug] Newbie needs help!
>
>On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 03:31:04PM +0100, Andrew Halliwell wrote:
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>>And verily, didst John Hearns announce to the hordes:
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>>>However, you might consult the 4MB Laptop Howto - written by our very
>>>own Bruce Richardson. There - he's beeling now.
>>>
>>>I doubt you'll get any useable X performance on 12M though.
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>>Dunno why not, I started out on an 8meg 486 back in 99 with suse 5.2.
>>X, the base os, netscape, various other things, all sat quite nicely on a
>>300 meg hard disk back then.
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>I can see a "my computer is smaller than your computer" contest
>breaking out ...
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>>Perhaps rather than try the latest and greatest, a "fallback" to earlier
>>versions of linux will reduce the size enough to make 12meg bearable.
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>I used to run Slackware 1, with X11 and xemacs, on a 386 with 5 MB of
>RAM.  Of course that was back in '93, and it was pretty slow.  So much
>so that I went out and spent 600 quid [sic] on 16 MB of memory for it,
>which made all the difference.
>
>The problem with going back to these ancient versions of Slackware is
>that they're likely to be buggy/insecure as hell.  I definitely
>wouldn't try connecting such a machine to the internet.
>
>Rich.
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    We have a a 286 that runs windows 3.1 and does somthing useful(tm) 
however since the floppy drive is broke it only communicates via a 
serial cable or (33 of them in fact)

    If you want to get a older machine running linux, your best bet is 
probably debian with most things not installed. install the basics and 
then see how far you get... should be more up to date than an achient 
version of Slackware. Debian (esspacially woody) as been around for ages 
it may take some messing around on older hardware but its your best hope.

Peter Childs
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