Hi!
Someone asked me to revive their 20 year old laptop as its no longer working on their installation of windows XP.
This baby has around 512MB of Ram, 1.6 GHZ Intel Atom.
This is my first time doing something with hardware older than myself so I’d love some insight from people around.
Seems to be an Intel Atom N270 x86
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Toshiba-NB100.12668.0.html
I suppose I’m sticking to x32 builds no?
Sounds like it, yeah.
https://itsfoss.com/32-bit-linux-distributions/
Debian appears to still support x86, and 512 MB memory.
If you can increase the memory, you can consider LMDE, but I suggest sticking to Debian with the extra memory to allow space for a browser and office applications.
EDIT: It appears 2 GB is possible, it was a limit in XP.
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/my-toshiba-nb100-netbook-review.17943780/
Edit2: https://a.co/d/5Mdq5Q8 is pretty cheap. You only need one, but it’s the same cost either way. Maybe you can sell or trade it?