[olug] Small old laptop challenge

[Tim & Alethea Larson]

Bill Brush wrote:
> Ok, so I had a relic of an earlier age come across my desk a few weeks
> ago, and I have this growing urge to try to do something with it to
> make it useful.  It's a Thinkpad 701cs with the unique butterfly
> keyboard.  Processor-wise it's a 486DX4-75, and it has 24MB of RAM.
> 
> It has a PC-card slot, and I might be able to dig up an ethernet PC
> card, and it has a floppy drive.  No CD drive though.
> 
> Anyone know of a distro that will run on this old beast?

I've run NetBSD on boxes smaller than that.  :)  With X, even.

Tim

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