On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 10:53:54AM +0000, Simon Royal wrote:
Hi
Following up from your views on Ubuntu. If I was to get a laptop about P2 400 what would be a good Linux distro. It would need to run pretty fast.
I realise the machine isn't super quick, but I know Linux runs a damn site better and faster than Windows. All I would want it for is Wi- Fi access so would need a distro that would pick up a wireless card and run internet, email and office apps like OpenOffice.
I'd suggest not even trying to make openoffice run on it! OpenOffice has a "rather high" memory footprint, I'd suggest using AbiWord and Gnumeric instead, which are a bit lighter. I'm a debian fan, personally, and am running unstable on my personal machines (debian stable at work, mostly), so I'd probably suggest that :)
Cheers,