What shall I do with the 133mhz laptop?

Ello all,

After around 4 years of not using the laptop my sister finnaly decided I can have it :o) Unfourtunatly its now way out of date. It doesnt have any modem, my sister lost the CD drive, and its only 133mhz. I wish I had a good laptop :P Does anyone have any great suggestions on what I should with the laptop? Right now the best thing I can think of is leave a program on it calculating pie for fun and then put it in my cubboard where no one can hear it, see it, and it can still have a powerpoint.

see if you can get a network card and a replacement cdrom for it. then put on linux. it could still have uses :)

Door stop? Boat anchor? Stair step exercise stair? ;)

You could make it a firewall with linux on it. If it can be networked that is. I turned my P200 laptop into a firewall, and it works great. Slap linux on it and off i went.

I might use it as a firewall, I like that idea. Right now Im trying to get Mandrake Linux for an old desktop I have sitting in my room. So maybe I should put them on both opf them. Im having trouble getting it, theres only one more computer store that I havent looked in yet, and its too big to download. Maybe I could put Unix on the old laptop, I would like to learn about, and try out, some systems other than windows. If I were to partition one of my computer's hard drives to put both linux and unix on them, is it possible to undo? :)

OpenBSD i hear is great... Im a Windows guy, so im not sure if its all that or not.

OR you could just as easily send it to me. ;) PM me for my address. :D

[edit] I'll pay shipping, of course.

:D :D :D

Mandrake isn't good for low-spec computers (it's way too bogged-down with junk). May want to try Debian instead... very very powerful but just has the essentials. You can of course still install other packages with the excellent dselect.

I think I might just use it to practice ASM when my sister is reading harry potter stuff on the main computer :P

like everyone else said, install linux. as one of my good friends said...linux will run on an empty pepsi can.

Use it as file storage. Chuck in a network card...

What is the smallest flavour of Linux can I get? Cause if I want to get it to that laptop I will have to do it by floppy disks :P

Get a network card for it, then you can copy the files directly.

Im only 14 :P so I cant get anything for it that costs money. I just spent arround 4 hours installing freeBSD unix on one of my computers from floppy disks, and now that Ive finnaly installed it Im stuck in a command prompt and all I know how to do it make directories and list all my files. How do I get to the part where you can point and click at things like in windows? lol

Still its kinda nice to use just a weird command line for a while :)

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Originally posted by Evil_Cowgod
How do I get to the part where you can point and click at things like in windows? lol

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:eek: This is *nix, not Windows! :)

I ment this thingo :P

evil cowgod, are u the one who wrote the hacks for runescape a while back? cause i know there was an evil cowgod who wrote some really cool rs hacks. maybe it was you....

lol their not hacks their just funny little cheats like an autominer that no longer works :p

yeah, thats what i meant, is still a fun game though. do u still play?

nope lol

Anyway, are you running the X server? In your weird command line try typing: startx

U can great linux from scratch. Compile u r own kenel and libraries . it would take i think 500 MB or so.....if u had a CD ROM drive I would have suggested Knoppix.

Psst, this thread is 3 months old.;)

am i not allowed to post a reply for a thread which is 3 months old or what? a pblm is a pblm until it is solved i think!!!