> Go find 'Puppy' linux. It specifically designed with old boxes in mind > (will work in 32Mb, but a bit more comfortable in 128) and does some cool > stuff with unionfs to minimise writes to disk (thus preserving battery > life). IIRC there are boot floppy images for it which work in conjunction > with the USB/CD image. > > I've only fired it up twice on my (1GHz, 384Mb) laptop where it was > amazingly fast running with the entire image (96Mb inc XWindows, Abi Word, > Gnumeric and Mozilla) in the ram disk layer of the filesystem. > > HTH > > C. > > _______________________________________________ > Scottish mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
I run Puppy very successfully on a laptop with a celeron 333 and 64mb ram from a live cd, it can slow down a fair bit if the swap kicks in but is still usable. I realise you really want Slackware but thought my experience of Puppy may be useful. Joste _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
