Linux for old Hardware - DeLi Linux
Tuesday, November 13. 2007, 12:48
I got an old laptop donated a while back, Pentium 133 with 24 MB RAM, no CDROM, no USB. I wanted to provide it for someone else as a basic internet surfing and office writing station and faced the problem what system would be suitable for that.
I tried some old flavours of Debian, but wasn't really happy. Then I found that there's a dsitribution called DeLi Linux that seemed to be just perfect. What they're doing is providing an intelligent mix of current and old software (yeah, xorg really runs on a P133). They have installation floppies for network install (well, it was nontrivial to find three floppies in my room). It's all a bit like doing Linux by foot, they're missing a real package management (they have one, but no auto-dependencies) and things like that, but that didn't really hurt.
In the end I had an IceWM-Desktop, together with Konqueror-Embedded, alternatively you can use Firefox 1.5 (they backport security fixes) linked against plain X-libs. Texts can be written with AbiWord, linked against gtk1.
It's a nice solution, if you once need some system for a machine where xubuntu is far too bloated, you might want to try out DeLi Linux. According to their webpage, it runs on a 486 with 16 MB.
My stub of an installation report for the HP OmniBook 5500CS is here (I may extend it when I get the laptop back, it has some more devices to explore, internal soundcard, tv-out).
I tried some old flavours of Debian, but wasn't really happy. Then I found that there's a dsitribution called DeLi Linux that seemed to be just perfect. What they're doing is providing an intelligent mix of current and old software (yeah, xorg really runs on a P133). They have installation floppies for network install (well, it was nontrivial to find three floppies in my room). It's all a bit like doing Linux by foot, they're missing a real package management (they have one, but no auto-dependencies) and things like that, but that didn't really hurt.
In the end I had an IceWM-Desktop, together with Konqueror-Embedded, alternatively you can use Firefox 1.5 (they backport security fixes) linked against plain X-libs. Texts can be written with AbiWord, linked against gtk1.
It's a nice solution, if you once need some system for a machine where xubuntu is far too bloated, you might want to try out DeLi Linux. According to their webpage, it runs on a 486 with 16 MB.
My stub of an installation report for the HP OmniBook 5500CS is here (I may extend it when I get the laptop back, it has some more devices to explore, internal soundcard, tv-out).
Game and Watch collection
Thursday, November 1. 2007, 14:09
I have a small collection of classic Nintendo Game and Watch devices, I once promised to put images online. I may add further old videogaming stuff I have.
Here they are, not much, but at least from all generations. Especially the wrist watches from end 80s / beginning 90s are quite rare. If you see some devices somewhere and wanna donate something to me, that'd be a very good idea :-)
Wikipedia page about Gamen and Watch is quite good, if you're looking for more info.
Here they are, not much, but at least from all generations. Especially the wrist watches from end 80s / beginning 90s are quite rare. If you see some devices somewhere and wanna donate something to me, that'd be a very good idea :-)
Wikipedia page about Gamen and Watch is quite good, if you're looking for more info.
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