Linux on old laptop - still trying...

[John Abreau]

Drew Van Zandt wrote:
> I've run Debian recently on a 586/133 (AMD of some sort?) with 64 MB
> of RAM, and it was fine once I trimmed out a little of the extra
> crud... in particular switching to a low-demand X window manager
> helped.  I can't remember which I ended up using, unfortunately, but
> it was based on googling for something pretty straightforward like "x
> window manager embedded"
> 

Looks like Matchbox is the favorite embedded WM, according to google.

http://projects.o-hand.com/matchbox/


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