You could always give Plan9 a shot. ;-)
On 7/11/06, Ryan Madison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I recently installed back|track on an older IBM laptop because I want to
pretend I'm a hacker. It's based on slackware, and the install from the live
cd was quick and relatively painless. Most things worked out of the box. (
Saw my orinoco gold card, USB worked, sound worked. )
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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