What do I do with an old laptop?

[Derek Broughton]

Liam Proven wrote:

> On 2/21/06, Carthik Sharma <carthik at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have a very old, Compaq Presario 1245 laptop, with a AMD-k6 333Mhz
>> processor and 128 MB memory (4 gig HDD). Most importantly, perhaps, it
>> does not have a ethernet adapter on it. It does have a PCI card slot,
>> though.
> 
> If you want to use it as a general-purpose Linux laptop, it sounds
> ideal as a host for Ubuntu Lite:
> 
> http://www.ubuntulite.org/
> 
> I really doubt it has a PCI slot; I think you mean a PC Card (i.e.
> PCMCIA) slot, maybe, if you're lucky, a Cardbus slot (the 32-bit
> version of PCMCIA, comparable to PCI.)

It may well have a mini-PCI slot, though finding things that will fit in
there is usually difficult.
-- 
derek