So, here is a brief overview. I recently bought 4 used Fujitsu Stylistic Tablet PCs for dirt cheap price: one 3400 with 400MHz and 6GB and three 3500 with 500MHz and 20 to 40GB. They all came with 128MB RAM. 3400 is upgradable to 192MB and 3500s are upgradable to 256MB RAM. They all have 1 PCMCIA (PC Card) slot, 1 Serial port, and 1 USB port and they all have a touch screens. What they didn't have, at least not without a docking station, which I don't have, are CD/DVD drive, Floppy Drive, LAN (Ethernet) port, and PS/2 ports. The Tablet PCs also do not see USB drives during boot time, so starting up a LiveUSB OS was not possible without some effort. I wanted to get the Tablet PC experience without paying hundreds of dollars and at the same time put LINUX's hardware compatibility and put it to test in near extreme scenarios with respect to resources. I had almost bought 10 100MHz Fujitsu Teampads with 8MB RAM. I am glad I didn't do that mistake.
So far, the experience has been both rewarding as well as frustrating at times. After reading some articles, I was able to setup Xubuntu on 3400 with touch screen functioning as mouse and virtual keyboard, and working wireless. Xubuntu, while being most lightweight of all major Ubuntu derivatives, still proved to be bulky considering the hardware I was working on.
I've been experimenting with Puppy Linux and TinyCoreLinux among others to see if I can get the tablet to its full functionality similar to what I had achieved with Xubuntu on 3400 but with better processor and lighter strain on resources. Up till now, the experience has been nerve wrecking. I am not giving up on them however. Hopefully, I'll get them to that functionality sooner rather than later.
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