[Gllug] retro computing

[Jim Bailey]

On Oct 05, 03:12, 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.

Run Gentoo on it. :D

Actually not such an insane idea using dist-cc you can create up to date
binary packages with everything but what you need removed on a faster
machine then install the packages on the 386.  for X I would say you
will be lucky to run anything above fwm.

Have fun doing it. :)

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