My personal preference is a stage one install from gentoo, but this was a nice change from compiling *everything* from scratch. I don't have any experience with ubuntu. Have fun.
-R
On 7/11/06, Grant Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have an old 400Mhz PII with 128MB of RAM and it's running Debian
sarge w/ Fluxbox like a champ. The latest FreeBSD 6 would also
probably be great for it too. I guess the main issue would be, what do
use the laptop for?
Grant
On 7/11/06, Josh Scilacci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What kind of ram does it take? I think that I have a bunch of old laptop ram
> sitting around that I would be willing to let you have if it is the right
> type. I need to check it out to make sure that I still have it and see what
> type it is.
>
> 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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