I am looking for another OS to used on a older laptop.
Laptop is 1ghz,256mgs ram, and a 40gig hd,dvd/cd reader. Right now it
has XP(came with it)on, and thought I would try something else.
The OS must have the ability to surf the net,email and have some
softwareavailable for
Why change? Myself I would add some more RAM if possible and just use it
as-is. The only other OS I would use is Windows 2000. Linux is another
option, you may not find all the software you need though. For Linux I find
Ubuntu very idiot-proof.
Before you install something make a note of the
I would advise you to try Puppy Linux and PSKmail Live CD's (baed on
Mandriva) and see if any of them suits your expectations. The latest
PSKmail CD I have includes Wine and some older windows ham apps that
work well. I installed it to my hard drive on a P4 w/ 512 MB RAM.
The latest Puppy I
Jose,
I use the emcpup disk by Dave, W1HKJ and ham_pup . I use emcpup
regularly and am actually able to make it run, although not without
difficulties, on an old Toshiba Laptop with 96Mb of ram. They both
have all the Linux apps needed to get you working most digital mode
right away as
Thank you, Darrel. I have not downloaded them, will try to get the
images to burn here and give them a test drive.
73,
Jose, CO2JA
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Darrel Smith wrote:
Jose,
I use the emcpup disk http://www.w1hkj.com/emcpup.html by Dave, W1HKJ
and ham_pup http://pskmail.wikispaces.com/ . I use
