[Gllug] retro computing

Christian Smith csmith at micromuse.com
Fri Oct 7 12:13:26 UTC 2005


On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Brad Cahoon wrote:

>Hi,
> I am about to receive a 386 laptop which I would like to idealy get X
>running on, having trolled the internet not much came up. I thought the
>guru's here must be running bleading edge software on dinosaur hardware just
>for the fun of it. any comments on distros etc greatly received.


You might want to try NetBSD instead. It would probably be better suited
to such small machines.

If you have 8 MB RAM, then you could perhaps try the QNX demo floppy disk.


> thanks
>Brad Cahoon
>

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