What distro for very old laptop
I have an old i386 IBM Thinkpad 365 laptop with 24megs of ram. I was wondering if there are any distros that would work good on this old of a computer? Peferably one that has a user friendly setup, or at least is easy to figure out (im still a linux newb T_T).
Thankyou for your time ^^ |
good luck -- the more user-friendly things get, the more demanding they get...
that's not a box i'd readily recommend a new linux user try and admin... it'll not work well with X (i'm guessing) --you'll have to use something much more lightweight, and much less user friendly, like actual linux... at the console... |
I got win 95 working on the laptop, and my friend said he read somewhere someone got an old mandrake working on a cmp with 75mhz... so im hopeful^^ lol...
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33mhz on win95, how long does it take from bootup to username logon?
lol ATA11! high speed! Just curious, Derek |
Ya I was mistaken its a i486.. (if thats where u determined hte mhz from..)
It didn't take to long to boot up win95 when I was trying it. Although when I tried windows 98 it ran slow. |
ya I realized u misstyped that digit, i am actualy surprised, does your old laptop boot from a CD?, if not, what do you use to boot from cd's?
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hmm... maybe I'm wrong about my laptop? lol.... Donno what speed it is exactly T_T, not to familare what i486 and other stuff means
(all i know is its an IBM Thinkpad 365 and has 24megs or ram) It boots windows from its 500meg harddrive, but I have an external cd drive. Im thinking I may give up hope on the laptopt T_T. The keyboard has problems, batter doesnt work (needs to be plugged in), and the screen is really crappy (when stuff moves u see a long trail after it). |
500mb hdd!?, lol, wow, I thought I was bad being interested in putting a linux server on a 133mhz and 5gb hdd.
Sounds like that things on its last legs, i'm sure its a 33mhz, I was just pointing out that some earlier motherboards wont boot from cd's. How does that CDrom drive connect?, cant be USB, can it? I was interested in buying a laptop, but dont have the money I was thinkin bout getting a 400mhz one since I cannot aford a modern one and running linux on it. |
lol this is more of a just for fun thing.. im not actualy thinking of careing this thing around (mideswell just carry a pad of paper in pen for what this laptop can do XD)
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