I would say Gentoo but that is because I recommend that to everybody. Ubuntu is probably a good choice. After Grant's recommendation I am going to try out BSD on mine due to my crappy ATI video card but you also might want to try one of the BSDs.
Josh
On 7/11/06, Dennis Bagley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ryan,
I have a comparable Dell laptop, same memory etc that runs Ubuntu just
fine.
Dennis
Ryan Flowers wrote:
> I have an older Dell Inspirion that just puked its Windows XP
> installation. Surprise, surprise. I booted it a few months ago and it
> was fine. Tried to boot it last week to make sure it was ready to take
> on a trip to the bay area and it was dead. XP just reboots itself.
>
> Its a P3 1ghz with 384MB RAM and a 20GB hard drive. I run FC5 at home
> and work, but I doubt it'd survive well on this older hardware. Any
> suggestions for a distro it would be happy with?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ryan Flowers
> www.rykoala.org
>
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