linux notetaker

[Alex Snow]

I at one time had a toshiba 386 laptop 2mb ram 16mhz cpu etc...linux
probably would work even on that.

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On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Doug wrote:

> It is possible to boot linux on 386SL with 6MB RAM.
> It is also possible to fit a small linux distribution
> in well under 80MB (text only, no x-windows). This
> guy says he runs linux on a 386SL with 4MB RAM and
> 80MB hard drive:
>
> "The laptop I use when I'm out and about has a 386SL,
> 4Mb RAM, and an 80Mb HD, and I manage quite nicely
> on it, thank you!"
> http://dunne.dyn.dhs.org/~paul/articles/exe-linux
>
> So I think it will work, but you'd want as much RAM
> as possible (ideally the max 20MB), and this is a
> slow processor (25Mhz), so it won't be lighting
> fast. I have no idea about the braille components,
> I would imagine that some work would be needed to
> get those working. Perhaps some existing code like
> brltty could be adapted to work with it.
>
> If you want to try linux on a small machine like
> this, look at some of the mini linux distributions
> like pocket linux and such (there are many to choose
> from). You can use tools like busybox to keep the
> executables small.
>
> -- Doug
>
>
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