Linux distros for older hardware (Linux.com)

Linux distros for older hardware (Linux.com)

Posted Mar 8, 2006 20:53 UTC (Wed) by roelofs (subscriber, #2599)
In reply to: Linux distros for older hardware (Linux.com) by bk
Parent article: Linux distros for older hardware (Linux.com)

There was a time when I was using a 90mHz Pentium laptop (with 24 or maybe 32 MB or RAM), and running GNOME 1.4 and the later Mozilla betas (0.9.6 or thereabout). Yes it was slow, but it was all I had so it was usable enough. Even then I remember Mozilla was better than Netscape 4.x.

I still have a 75 MHz Pentium laptop with 16 MB RAM; I don't use it very often anymore (for obvious reasons), but it's still functional, and it runs both X and NN 4.x without too much of a struggle. NN 3.0x was friendlier, though, while Mozilla is Right Out. (libc5 support got dropped in the summer of 1998, as I recall.) To be honest, though, it's more useful as a DOS game machine...

Believe it or not I actually compiled it from source on that machine.

Now that's ballsy. ;-)

Greg

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