4MB Laptop How-To: How to put a “grown-up” Linux on a small-spec laptop (2000)

Re:4MB Laptop How-To: How to put a “grown-up” Linux on a sma... by acidburn1995 on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @11:20PM (#14609911)

A while ago I tried installing Slackware 3.0 on Virtual Box out of nostalgia, and it was everything I remembered and worse. I only managed to get XFree86 to start up in some 300x200 mode that would pan around the 'virtual' size. Getting networking working required a kernel recompilation.

Even after all that, there wasn't much it could do. I'm not sure why I insisted on running that instead of Windows 95.

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Re:4MB Laptop How-To: How to put a “grown-up” Linux on a sma... by KGIII on Thursday June 22, 2017 @12:50AM (#14610191)

Yeah. I have fallen into the VM hole. I even have images for Plan9. I am not proud of this, no... No, no I am not.

My only defense is that I didn't do so out of a fake memory of a glorious past. I just like tinkering.

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