Free Software Magazine: Legacy Hardware Takes Wings with GNU/Linux

“Having read of Microsoft’s white paper on the use of GNU/Linux
on legacy hardware, I had to laugh at the conclusions. But, to be
fair, I thought it was time to update my own “legacy” laptop, a
Toshiba 660CDT, with a Pentium 150, a 800×600 LCD panel, and a
whole 80MB of ram installed.

“I originally took this laptop with me when I visited the
Republic of Macedonia in 2002. At the time I had installed Mandrake
(7.2), which actually ran reasonably well with KDE. I chose
Mandrake for this machine back then simply because it was compiled
as Pentium optimized, and I thought it best to give the little
machine whatever benefit it could have…”

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