Yip. It's been quite fun trying out the older Distros. Xandros 2 is just made for P1 hardware. Small foot print. Just enough applications to get you going and awesome hardware auto detection. Auto mounts floppies, CDs and USB sticks no problem... Intigrates with SMB networks no worries. To give it a better selection of programs just remove the current sources.list and put in some archived Sarge repository's and you are away laughing.
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Damn sight more installed in the time it takes to install the bare OS that is Win9x/NT/W2K on a similer specced system. Plus a huge selection of emulators to choose from. Oh and it doesn't slow down with age.
Edit-Found a Xandros 3 Open Circulation CD in my stash. It added DVD burning support. Installing it now and it will come out at about a gig once installed. Half way through already.,,,
Install complete. The only glitch was that Xandros 3 did not detect the serial mouse like Xandros 2 did. As I have a two port pci usb expansion card it in the P166MMX test rig it did detect the usb mouse fine. It know has Firefox 1 as part of the package which seems quite a bit snappier than the older Mozilla web browser in Xandros 2. As you can see from the pic below every thing on our home SMB network was picked up sraight away.Multi-function printer, wife laptop, the Linux Mint box and of course this system
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As one does one has to fiddle and do a wee bit of customisation just........... Original sources.list overwriten using good ol mc (Midnight Commander), ntp sync and we'er all good to go.
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There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s.
Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉