Hi
I am looking at different distros. I need high hardware compatibility, ease of use for newbies plus reasonable speed out of dated hardware.
I have yet to find a laptop, but have been looking at anything from Pentium 2 300Mhz upwards.
Ubuntu I have tinkered with Ubuntu 5.10 live cd on a G3 iBook 500Mhz with 386MB ram and an AMD 1.3Ghz desktop with 768MB RAM and both were ok speed wise. I know an install would speed things up anyway.
OpenSUSE I have heard good things about OpenSUSE but I don't know how power hungry it is.
Vector Linux Finally I was looking at Vector Linux as it is aimed to run comfortably with only 32MB RAM and under a 1gig install space, but I don't know anyone who has used it.
If you could help point in the right direction for a low specced distro that runs on a laptop and is usuable on a daily basis without having to delve to much into the Linux underbelly just to get things going.
Kind Regards
Simon Royal
---- www.simonroyal.co.uk The box said requires Windows 2000 or better, so I bought an Apple Mac