* Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:
> Puppy Linux 4.0 on my old laptop: it's getting better
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>| Recently I tried one of my fav distro, Puppy Linux, on my very old laptop
>| Toshiba Tecra 8200.
>| And this time I found a pleasant surprise.
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> http://seputarlinux.blogspot.com/2008/06/puppy-linux-40-on-my-old-laptop-its.html
Puppy and Damn Small Linux both run well on my old (BIOS is dated 1996)
no-name laptop. Damn Small used even less RAM than Puppy. However, the
install process for Damn Small hung partway through.
So I decided to try the latest Debian net-install (4.0rc3), and that did
install. Started getting a lot of hard-drive I/O errors while running
aptitude, until I direct a fan at the laptop.
I want to get the atheros wireless card working on it, then try to use
the laptop as a no-GUI xmms2 access point for my stereo.
This machine is a 380 MHz K6 box with 96 Mb of RAM.
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Are you ever going to do the dishes? Or will you change your major to biology?
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