I ran Debian nearly 10 years ago on an HP Omnibook 300 (386sx/16), so it's certainly possible.
If the laptop is to be run independently, then you need to run X if you want a GUI. My favorite light-weight window manager is fluxbox because it's light (a fork of blackbox) but also does tabs. I no longer can live without tabs. Anyhow, if the laptop is to be on a network, you might consider running all your apps on a nearby host and using the laptop as a terminal... the lightest way to do it would be to use the kernel frame buffer device and fbvnc on the laptop (and realvncserver or tightvncserver on the nearby host). An interesting note about kernels... 2.6.x has the uClinux kernel fork folded back in... i.e. it can be built really tiny as needed for microcontrollers and other low-spec CPUs. So while the stock 2.6.x kernels are certainly bigger than the 2.2 and 2.4 family, it may be possible to build custom kernels that are quite small. (If you never heard of uClinux, it's the fork of Linux that was small enough to run on a 68000-based Palm PDA). Best Regards, Tony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
