[ale] open source solutions for Win 98 on an old laptop

[Preston Boyington]

Brian wrote:
> Considering that I have have put it on machines with 32Mb and 64MB, I
> would make a stab at putting a rather sparse load of Debian on it.
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+1 for Debian.  still have it running on my Compaq 133mhz 32mb laptop. 
the windowmanager is the biggest hog, followed by OOo.

for old equipment (pretty much all i have) i use Debian, Slackware, or a 
BSD (FreeBSD or NetBSD usually).

use Icewm, Fluxbox, Enlightenment ("new" E17 has loads of eyecandy), 
FVWM, FVWM-Crystal, or XFCE (although it is getting a little "bloated" 
now) as your window managers.

ditch OOo documents for Abiword.

also, here are a few distros to look at (either to run or for ideas):

DeLi Linux
http://delili.lens.hl-users.com/

Ubuntulite
http://ubuntulite.tuxfamily.org/

Dreamlinux
http://www.dreamlinux.com.br/

VectorLinux
http://vectorlinux.com/

Linux Mint
http://lm.ltv2.nutime.de/index.html

Slax
http://www.slax.org/

Yoper
http://www.yoper.com/

Feather Linux
http://featherlinux.berlios.de/