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Here are two web sites you might want to check:

http://www.linux.org.uk/ELKS-Home/index.html
http://ryeham.ee.ryerson.ca/uClinux/


throopw@sheol.org (Wayne Throop) wrote:

>I've seen the "Best LAPTOP to buy for Linux?" thread, which provokes me
>to ask the tangentially related question, what's the SMALLEST easily
>available laptop to by for Linux. 
>
>I'm aware of the Libretto models, and the PC110, and others in the
>very-very-small-notebook or borderline-palmtop category.  But
>appropriate models of those aren't totally satsifying to my
>overcritical eye, so I'm wondering about alternatives. 
>
>I saw a Windoze CE palmtop advertised with possible 16Mb memory, and
>J.Random Accessories, but I presume a linux port to one of those would
>be unlikely (since many of them use exotic CPUs). 
>
>So.  What have people accomplished in the "small, small linux world"
>arena?  Anybody got linux running on a sub-kilobuck palmtop (even if
>without X), with an IP-networking solution (ppp, ethernet, whatever) for
>"docking"? If not, what comes close?
>
>Especially interesting is the "IP docking" question.  Any experience
>with PC110 or Libretto used remotely as a highly portable plug-in
>computing brick from an X terminal would be of interest to me. 
>
>(Or is this an old and boring question, for which there is a FAQ I missed?)
>--
>Wayne Throop   throopw@sheol.org   http://sheol.org/throopw




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