Puppy Linux 4.1.2 Barebones Retro

Pic is from photobucket and, of course, is of some super old computer gizmo, not the one I'm speaking about below.

Hello All. It's been a couple of days since I posted I think. On top of all my unemployment disappointments, I have a sore throat and feel blicky! Waaahhhh!

I've spent this sick day working on (read killing time, playing, etc) getting this old Toshiba 1625cdt/4.3 laptop going with linux. I am a total linux newbie and came across it when I was trying to reload windows 98se with a boot disk. Now I know that can't be done. I messed up the hard drive partitions, basically. Other facts about this laptop: around 400 mhz, 192 ram, 20 gig hard drive. I'm posting from it right now!

Puppy Linux os has been interesting to take a look at today. It comes bundled sort of like windows and it's free. You make bootable disks from the internet and it runs from your cdrom. After messing with it a bit I got it to save settings, boot faster, and cdrom is usable. I still have to boot with cdrom. It's been fun fiddling with it. Seamonkey browser seems to work ok. It's a bit slow, though. I can't get video to work and not sure about sound. I finally got a word processor to work and I think it's called Text master or something to that effect. It is free also. Linux Puppy was the only Linux thang that wasn't over my head and people use it on old machines. It will be great for camping (lots of koa's have wifi), using in my car, etc.

Being Earth Day and all, I decided to get this old thing going because I know what great machines they are. It's about 8-10 years old, clunky, and has been used very little. I hate to throw it out. Happy Earth day to all!

Oh, thanks to Amy for the comments. I also wanted to mention how great it is to be around my neices - watching Natalie get ready for the prom, and Casey navigating young adulthood/college. They're great girlies! I miss that Matty (nephew) in WY immensely!