[Gllug] Daughter inherits 486 laptop ... err what can I make it run?

[Peter Childs]

M.Blackmore wrote:

>Daughter (8yr old and budding author) is inheriting my old 100mhz 486
>with 20mb ram and 1.6gb disk.
>
>Don't laugh ... this was hot stuff about 12 years back!
>
>But what can I do with it now so she can have a nice GUI system that
>will enable her to do email thru our network server, get at the www, and
>have a wysiwig wordprocessor.
>
>There seems no way I can get anything to work under W95 that will allow
>her to access modern www... 
>
>Just what can one do with such a low resource machine if a GUI is
>wanted?
>
>
>  
>
    LTSP might be your best answer its very simple to set up and a 486 
should be just about capabile of being a terminal. However 20Mb of 
memory will require some swap space, but then its got a hard disk...

See http://www.ltsp.org

Peter Childs
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