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On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> A couple of years back, I sat out to investigate what could be done with the
> machine and laid out my findings on my blog, along with the notes I made
> during the project (I'm afraid that I was a bit disappointed with BL's
> performance at the time) -
> http://yesterdata.blogspot.com/2010/12/litebook-concludes.html

The links here seem to require javascript and I read mail at a BSD shell 
account using lynx with pine.  Want to summarize?

> <http://yesterdata.blogspot.com/2010/12/litebook-concludes.html>This time, I
> accepted that most of the problems were really hardware level after having
> found more information about not only BL but muLinux as well.

> To that extent, this is really an exercise. But, more important, is the
> notion that something as old as this computer can have a much more modern
> OS, even if it is still a few years old.

BL itself is now over 10 years old.  In 1999 or so a 486 75MHz was my best 
computer and worked nicely with BL1, where Redhat took 5 min to boot and 
another 5 to load X.  12MB RAM.

> The plan is for it to be used as a field unit, though the ThinkPad 760XD
> will be used quite a bit for that. The 500's size makes it ideal.
> Then, of course, there is the notion of not letting it go to waste, which is
> more important to me.

I understand, but what exactly did you want to use it for?  Do you need 
graphics?

> As for the video chipset, it uses an odd monochrome type; this played all
Try the mono X server.  Opera 6 works with mono.

Please try to send plain text without the second HTML copy (change your 
mail program's settings)

Sindi