On Saturday 26 October 2013 05:54:27 pm Alexandre Couture wrote:
I bought on EBay a Compaq TC1000 convertible tablet pc at a low price. It
has a Transmeta Crusoe TM5800 1ghz CPU and I installed +-360mb of ram on
it. The trouble is that this CPU emulates a 586 cpu only... ...and most
modern distros are 686 and up...
Does someone here know of a good distro to use (or that actually boots) on
a 586 CPU?
Alexandre,
I can't speak from personal experience, but some resources you might want to
look at:
Distrowatch allows you to search for distros by architecture, etc:
http://distrowatch.com/search.php
And here is an oldish web page about "Linux on Laptops and Notebooks with
TransMeta CPU (Crusoe, Efficeon)", with some links to attempts to install on
a TC1000:
http://tuxmobil.org/cpu_transmeta.html
Lastly, how about Puppy?
Best regards,
Andy