Re: 486 laptop...

[Hannes Mayer <debiandude@gmail.com>]

> > I've just inherited a 70 mHz 486 laptop with 24m RAM (!).  It
> > currently runs Windows 95.  question:  what can one do withsuch a
> > machine?  Any ideas out there?  Anything would be great, but something
> > educational would be great -- my 6-year-old would love a computer.

I've once tried knoppix on my old P1/166MHz / 16MB RAM laptop.
Of course GNOME or KDE won't work due low RAM, but as far as I can
remember IceWM worked quite well. There are other
"low-RAM-window-managers" in Knoppix. Have a look in the
boot-menu-help.

Best regards,
Hannes.