[rescue] O/S for 133/150mhz laptops???

[Frank Van Damme]

On 7/10/06, Michael Parson <mparson at bl.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 01:28:04PM -0700, stephen price wrote:
> > Asking for opinions for an operating system for some older pentium 133
> > & 150 mhz laptops.  Ram size will range from 32mb to 80mb, all have
> > a 6gb hard disk & nice TFT active matrix screens.  All have "real"
> > stickers for m$98 & could reload that - but would like to see about
> > nicer smaller kernel linux distros etc.
> >
> > Recommendations ??
>
> I'm running NetBSD on my 110Mhz Sparcbook with 64 megs of ram.  Runs
> X well enough (800x600x16bit) with a minimal window manager (evilwm).
> Wouldn't try and fire up Firefox or Mozilla, but dillo does a decent
> enough job for a graphical browser.
>

I would recommend you Opera. It flies on older boxen.


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Frank Van Damme