[Gllug] retro computing

[Joel Bernstein]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 03:12:03PM +0100, Brad Cahoon wrote:
>  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.

Why bother? I really doubt it'll even *run* X11R6 let alone have
sufficient RAM to load anything. As for the fun of running bleeding-edge
software at all, let alone on clapped-out
should've-been-retired-10-years-ago kit like you're talking about, I
think you ought to meditate on the meaning of 'fun' and its relevance to
tearing your hair out. Sure, Linux runs on 386es, but that doesn't mean
it ought to, or will do so usably well.

Seriously. 386s are *old*. People throw Pentium boxes in the bin, you're
sure to pick one up for pennies or free, and that will actually run.

/joel
-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug