I've got an old Pentium laptop, and I need a distro recommendation. I use it when I want to little typing away from my main system at home. The battery doesn't work, but it has a wireless card and I can boot it up next to a power plug.
I've been using Damn Small Linux (DSL) on it, and it works just great. Fluxbox isn't taxing to the processor, it's able to find and run the wireless and the display (with framebuffering), it has a handful of programs with little icons that are ready to use. It's a nice distro. Although you can put it on the hard drive instead of off the CD-ROM, which I've done, and even though it's based on Debian, they don't recommend running apt-get or do any other updating because it may break things. But now that I've got this nice base started, I want to tweek it a bit. I use Debian on my main box, Ubuntu on another, but what's a good distro which uses something lightweight like Fluxbox for older computer? I know I could customize something with Debian, but I like DSL which has a nice setup already done, and I don't feel like putting that much work into this laptop. I'm not trying to start a distro war, but when I look at the current landscape, they all seem to be fairly big. I tried Ubuntu live on the laptop, and it almost started smoking as it thrashed about. I need something small and simple. Fluxbox, Vim, and Firefox is about it. -- Lance Orner [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
