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. Regards Simon Royal
- The box said Windows 2000 or better, so I bought a Mac
On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 10:53 +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.
Check out Damn Small Linux (DSL). It's designed to run on older machines at a fair old whack. It comes as a LiveCD but can be installed and customised from there.
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, -- Brett Parker
On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 10:53:54 +0000 Simon Royal <s.royal@totalise.co.uk> 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.
Regards Simon Royal
- The box said Windows 2000 or better, so I bought a Mac
Go with debian (Its almost as easy as Ubuntu these days) and then apt-get install all the applications from Damn Small Linux (DSL). This is easy to manage as you have apt (How do you keep your boxes free of security holes witrh DSL), and without the bloat of Ubuntu, the only catch is booting maybe slow as Debian seems to focus on improving the running system, while booting could be cleaner I guess because debians not commercial Regards Owen I recomend icewm wmaker xterm nedit rox-filer dillo firefox sylpheed sylpheed-vanilla abiword flamerobin gnome-dictionary liferea gftp xchat mutt slrn skippy filelight gvd anjuta lokkit python
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