[Gllug] retro computing

[Ian Scott]

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

BasicLinux is quite good on low end hardware:

http://www.volny.cz/basiclinux/

You have to get round the fact that it is designed to run off an loopback file 
on dos ... but it can be installed to a proper partition.

I use this on my 8Mb 486 lappy.


Ian




		
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