On Wednesday 19 April 2006 20:56, Simon Royal wrote:

Hi

As you know I am still trying to setup a machine permanently with Linux.

I have gotten very cheaply a Thinkpad 755CX and a Thinkpad 770.

I have been playing with Damn Small Linux, which you probably are aware is aimed at very low-end machines. On my wifes 1.3Ghz Duron it screams along.

I have read that it is very good with hardware and even with wireless cards. All I want this machine for is wireless surfing and to tinker with Linux. I know it would be easier to run Windows 98 or something, but I can't stand the fact of owning a Windows machine - having my wifes is bad enough.

I was also looking at Vector Linux also aimed at low end machines.

Any way, has anyone used Damn Small Linux or Vector Linux and offer any advice.

The Thinkpad 755CX is a Pentium 75 with no CD and no USB and cost me £1.50 The Thinkpad 770 is a Pentium 350 with CD and USB and cost me £20

I am probably going to strip some of the parts from the 755CX to put in the 770 and bought it basically because it came with an IBM power pack which the 770 didn't.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Regards Simon Royal

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Hi Simon I have Damn Small Linux running, on an old Compaq P166 with 96MB RAM, very fast, also have it booting, as an option from USB stick on my main box-2.8 GHz No problems with any hardware detection, Puppy Linux is worth a look. Also very impressed with DreamLinux 1.0 Studio Edition with XFCE desktop. Has a utility called Makedistro, to make your own distro and store to bootable CD, or install. Regards - Nick Daniels