Working on getting this Canon BN750 printer laptop with a 266Mhz pentium working again. Any suitable Linux distro for it?
Posted by McUsername621@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 7 comments
From what ive found out while messing with it, it only supports hard drives up to 4GB so that makes things a bit limited.
s1ckn3s5@reddit
tinycore linux
zaskar@reddit
Redhat 5.5
i586DX4@reddit
Lindows
hawkenhiemer@reddit
NetBSD
JJDoes1tAll@reddit
Ive gone down this path. Win98SE or Win2k. Modern Linux distros wont be a good time, older distros wont be a good time.
TxM_2404@reddit
99% of modern software won't run, even if there is a 32Bit x86 variant because they are gonna need Pentium Pro instructions and SSE2.
Also you would need at least half a gigabyte of ram for any modern OS.
But if you really want to your best bets are probably Tiny Core Linux or one of the open source BSDs in a command line only configuration.
But Ideally you'd install Windows 95 or 98SE because then you can get the printer to work.
Think-Try2819@reddit
Why not windows 98?