I have recently gotten an old NEC Versa 2000 D.

It is a 486 35 mb memory 2gb hard drive. I am new to linux and have never put linux on a lap top. I have been running slackware 8.0 on a desktop. Slackware would probably work fine would not have GUI unless someone could suggest an alternative to Gnome and KDE or let me know where I can get on older version that would run good. willing to look at other distros.

Would aprecate any comments on any forseen problems!

I am hoping to be using it for wifi, reading E-books, playing games. Are there any other uses you can think of I can't wait to see what it is capable of.

Hope I gave enough info. Thank you in advance for all the advise.

I am willing to provide any further needed info.

playing games on a 486? Not much you could do there I think other than nethack.....

As for a gui, you could try blackbox, but 35megs of ram is lean indeed.

check out http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/4mb-Laptops.html

Slackware would probably work nicely on that laptop.

So would peanut linux I think.... (peanut linux is really small, light, and fast with a GUI)

www.slackware.com

www.ibiblio.org/peanut/

I'll agree about peanut. I used to use it 2 years ago on an old p133 floppy only laptop and it worked really well. Its very likely it will get the job done for you on that 486.

Thanks for the information will check out peanut and blackbox!

your right about the games. I was not thinking of it as a gaming computer but as for playing games like solitare and nethack.

4mb how to looks like good info! thank you all!!

Try tiny linux at.http://tiny.seul.org/en/ I think It would be the best start. Then you could build on it

Also check out this site.http://www-solidstate.physik.uni-bre.../winlinux.html

i use deli linux on my 486 toshiba with 12mb ram and 200mb hd, it's a dirrivitive of slack 7 i believe, pretty damn stable too if you stick a new kernel in there, she's been up for 34 days 22 hours and 16 min.... beastly.

As for gui you might want to check out pekwm, http://www.pekwm.org. It's pretty light weight but very usable.

Mike

Where would I get deli?

I think I will try slackware 8.0 this week to see how it runs and I will try to get peanut downloaded so i can try it to. Looking forword to trying all the recomended gui's.

Am I going to have to do anything special to make the screen work.