On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >And suddenly Masterson, Cian had this magical idea: >> I have just obtained an old clockwork-driven Toshiba T4400C laptop with a >> 486 and ~200MB hard drive. Can anyone recommend a release of Debian to run >Any release will do, I think. Just don't run things like X on this thing..
If it has at least 8 megs of memory, X could run with very simple applications in low resolution mode. If it has 4 megs, better be without X. It's better to stay away from Gnome & KDE even if it'd have over 16 megs of RAM, because the hard disk size limits then.
