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