Lance Orner wrote:
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.
My suggestion would be to go to www.distrowatch.com, where there is a
comprehensive list of the top 100 distributions, of all kinds, their
assets and limitations, and an additional list of what amounts in total
to about 300 distributions from which to pick. With the summaries,
rankings, and descriptions, distrowatch makes it fun to pick and chose.
No distro war here. I like 'em ALL.
William
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