[ltp] IBM to sell its PC business

[M. Leo Cooper]

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, ash wrote:

> I had an old 770Z for a while that quite happily ran Redhat 9. Sure, it
> wasn't a ball of fire (or as old as your machine), but it got the job
> done. I wonder whether something like Damn Small Linux
> (http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/) would be suitable for a machine of that
> vintage?

Running FC3 on 770Z. Mostly runs fine.

The major problem with limited speed / limited RAM on these older models
is the windows manager. Too slow to run KDE or Gnome, but runs sprightly
enough with icewm.




> If (sorry, when) IBM
> ditch the TP range, we'll have to keep alive as much of the old hardware
> as possible!

Older TPs will be around on eBay and other places for decades to come.