[TriLUG] small distribution for older laptop

[Brett Bolen]

Antix / mephis.  

Joel James Adamson <adamsonj at email.unc.edu> wrote:

>Christopher Blackmon <ckblackm at yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to get a small distribution to install on an older laptop and am 
>> looking for suggestions.
>>
>> The laptop is a Fujitsu P2120 (Transmeta Crusoe TM5800 (basically a
>> P3), 512MB ram).  I'm really just looking for something to surf the
>> web with, maybe run dosbox or something like that...  but it's kinda
>> slow, so anything that could make it seem snappier would be a bonus.
>> :-)
>
>I've run Fedora and Slackware on a Thinkpad 240 with 182 MB of RAM.
>Running Fluxbox without any desktop it works alright.
>
>Joel
>
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