> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Steffens > Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 10:05 PM > To: pdxlug > Subject: [PDXLUG] Santa came early!
>It's a 166 MHz Pentium MMX with 64 Mb of Ram. It dates to > somewhere in the mid to late 90's. Came with an ethernet card plugged > in, so it can join my home network. > A Linux-Google search of "Micron TransPort XPE" turned up 10 > pages, the > most recent being from 2000. The Linux on Laptops page is more > promising: the Micron XPE link is to a guy running RH 8 on > his machine. > > http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/micron.html > > So, I'm just getting started, and hope to get Linux running on this > machine. It's been a couple of years since I installed Linux on > anything, the last successful one being RH 8 on my Thinkpad. > At the risk > of starting a distro war, any recommendations for which one > to try on it? > I used to have Slackware 8 on a 133 mhz version of that laptop I believe. Ended up selling it for $50 because it had no floppy drive and the cd drive only worked half the time and I didn't really need a laptop at the time. I had obtained it free anyways. Slackware seemed to run quite nicely although the 800x600 display resolution was somewhat of a pain in the bum. I wouldn't recommend running either gnome or kde on it, but Slackware 9.1 plus X and a light window manager should be quite usable. I really don't remember anything about the configuration as that was several years ago so I won't be of any help in actually getting that set up unfortunately... _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug
