linux + old laptop = ??

[Ben Pfaff]

Paul Melson <melson@scnc.holt.k12.mi.us> writes:

> 	Linux will install fine on your laptop, but there
> 	are two things that could be prohibitive in its
> 	use.  First, as you mentioned, XFree86 may not 
> 	support the video controller.  I would wager that 
> 	you could butch & hack an XF86Config that would let 
> 	you do 640x480x8bpp.

Personally I don't think you'd want to run X on a 386 anyhow, and
certainly not with 4 MB RAM.  Why not just use vi (or a small
version of Emacs) and LaTeX?  Probably would work just fine.