wich distro on 486 laptop

DMRansom · 09-16-2003, 11:02 AM

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.

tcaptain · 09-16-2003, 01:54 PM

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.

johney · 09-16-2003, 09:46 PM

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

Whitehat · 09-16-2003, 11:42 PM

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/

tcaptain · 09-17-2003, 10:08 AM

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.

DMRansom · 09-17-2003, 11:55 AM

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!!

dvdljns · 09-20-2003, 02:52 AM

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

Oxagast · 09-21-2003, 07:00 PM

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.

MiscGeek · 09-21-2003, 09:31 PM

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

Mike

DMRansom · 09-22-2003, 12:51 PM

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.