[ale] Old Laptop

[John Mills]

Hi -

On 27 Jun 2003, Robert Coggins wrote:

> I have an old 90Mhz   yes that is Niner Zero laptop that I would like to
> put linux on.. I tried my  latest CD of RH 8.0 but of course no go
> because of memory.  It has 16 M RAM  any suggestions on distro and
> version?  Thank!

I put [updated] RH-6.2 and fvwm2 into a similar system and it ran, but
then I managed to scarf 32MBy more cheap RAM on eBay and it is _much_ more
satisfactory.

As another ALEr remarked, it's no ball of fire, but useful for some 
things.

 John Mills
 john.m.mills at alum.mit.edu

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