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I use Arch linux, and have run it on old slow hardware (but not quite as slow as a P100) with success. I would expect you could get a command line version running on your laptop, and maybe even throw on a super lightweight gui. It is NOT a newbie-friendly distribution since you do a lot of the configuration by hand. But in your case that is exactly what you want - you can install the base system and add the compilers an whatever else you need without any bloat or extra packages. There is good documentation, forums and a wiki, on their website which was enough help to get me going. You can find them at
www.archlinux.org.
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mountpoint
MOUNTPOINT(1) User Commands MOUNTPOINT(1)
NAME
mountpoint - see if a directory is a mountpoint
SYNOPSIS
mountpoint [-q] [-d] directory
mountpoint -x device
DESCRIPTION
mountpoint checks if the directory is mentioned in the /proc/self/mountinfo file.
OPTIONS
-h, --help
Print help and exit.
-q, --quiet
Be quiet - don't print anything.
-d, --fs-devno
Print major/minor device number of the filesystem on stdout.
-x, --devno
Print major/minor device number of the blockdevice on stdout.
EXIT STATUS
Zero if the directory is a mountpoint, non-zero if not.
AUTHOR
Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
ENVIRONMENT
LIBMOUNT_DEBUG=0xffff
enables debug output.
NOTES
The util-linux mountpoint implementation was written from scratch for libmount. The original version for sysvinit suite was written by
Miquel van Smoorenburg.
SEE ALSO
mount(8)
AVAILABILITY
The mountpoint command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
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