Repairing a tiny ribbon cable inside a 28 year old IBM ThinkPad 701c

Re:Repairing a tiny ribbon cable inside a 28 year old IBM Th... by jtwaleson on Saturday March 11, 2023 @03:44PM (#35112508)

It’s a 486, you will probably be able to run a lightweight Linux distro but it will be sloooooow.

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Re:Repairing a tiny ribbon cable inside a 28 year old IBM Th... by doublepg23 on Saturday March 11, 2023 @04:08PM (#35112726)

I don’t think most distros compile for i486, minimum is i686 (not too familiar with the jargon though, before my time). Even the kernel itself was going to trash i486 support entirely. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-i486-Linux-Possible-Drop

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Re:Repairing a tiny ribbon cable inside a 28 year old IBM Th... by guessbest on Saturday March 11, 2023 @04:11PM (#35112746)

They'll have to run it with a 2.2 era kernel. Everything after that ran dog slow on these machines.

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