[Coco] OT: Which Linux Distro?

mike delyea mdelyea at gmail.com
Tue Jul 24 19:14:16 EDT 2007


Another OT topic but I'll deal with it quickly.  I suggest Vector Linux.  I
have it on my P2 450 laptop.  No Beryl or fancy stuff.  May have to use
ndiswrapper (keep your XP driver disk) for wireless.  Runs very fast on my
450. Finshed!

On 7/24/07, Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Gentlemen,
> I have a Compaq Armada 1500c Laptop
> .
> It has 64MB RAM, and a ~366MHz Celeron processor and 12GB hard disk and a
> CDROM drive. I also use a Belkin Wireless Network (802.11g) card in it. It
> is model #FSD7010.
>
> Which Linux Distro would be best to use? I know about DSL (Damn Small
> Linux), but are there others which will install and run in such a small
> footprint?
>
> I consulted miss Google, and she showed me a page where someone installed
> Debian, but the doc was dated 1999, and Debian was at kernel 2.3.
>
> Tips, suggestions?
> No, No, not the "Toss it in the bin" suggestion....
>
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>
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> the capacity to be his spokesman,
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>
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