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13 year old Craptop
Aloone_Jonez:
I have an old 486 33MHz laptop with 4MB of RAM, it has a craptacular 256kB VGA card with a 640x480 screen.
What operating system do you recommend I install on it?
It currently struggles to run Windows 95 and I'm sick and tired of it so I was thinking about installing MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1 but then I thought I might try out a superiour non-MS alternative.
piratePenguin:
DSL or Slackware (maybe an older version. Not sure.), or if you're up for an adventure, LFS. And I can't imagine doing much on such a machine, until I setup an X server and get it connected to my proper machine (I wanna get something like that setup someday, just for a laugh and the convenience of having a portable computer I can use around the house.).
Lead Head:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---I have an old 486 33MHz laptop with 4MB of RAM, it has a craptacular 256kB VGA card with a 640x480 screen.
What operating system do you recommend I install on it?
It currently struggles to run Windows 95 and I'm sick and tired of it so I was thinking about installing MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1 but then I thought I might try out a superiour non-MS alternative.
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A computer can actually strugle with 95?
noob:
Yeah, mine did. Wouldnt boot it at all. Athlon 64 3400 and 95 couldnt start up :D.
WMD:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---I have an old 486 33MHz laptop with 4MB of RAM, it has a craptacular 256kB VGA card with a 640x480 screen.
What operating system do you recommend I install on it?
It currently struggles to run Windows 95 and I'm sick and tired of it so I was thinking about installing MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1 but then I thought I might try out a superiour non-MS alternative.
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Well Jonesy, I always hear you talking about FreeDOS. There you have it! ;)
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