Re: Older Laptops...
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 03:21:11PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am looking for some (8-20) older Laptops for some friends in
> Turkey, Kurdistan, Iran and Syria.
>
> They must have minimum a 486dx4/100, 16 MB of Ram, 540 MB HD,
> Floppy, CD-Rom and PCMCIA for 3c589D-Combo LAN-Cards. The Screen
> resolution is OK wit 800x600/256.
>
> I like to run X, balsa, mozilla, lyx and hylafax (ore something
> like this : GUI-Sugestions ???)
>
> Question: Is there a list, which OLDER LAPTOPS are working
> properly with Debian/GNU-Linux 2.1 Slink (2.0.38).
>
> Thamks in Advance
> Michelle Konzack
Those apps you wanted would work fine in Potato, too.
In fact, I think you really don't want Slink's copy of Mozilla; it
barely worked back then. 16 MB is a tight fit for it, anyway; you need
javascript, or you just need to be able to generally surf?
(The junior-internet task installs both mozilla and dillo, to offer
either direction.)
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