[Nottingham] Which Linux?

[David Aldred]

On Saturday 20 January 2007 15:52, Martin wrote:
> Tom Bird wrote:
> > Michael Leuty wrote:
> >> On 20/01/07, John at tesco <john.ridgard at tesco.net> wrote:
> >>> I have an old Dell laptop with a PII 333 processor and 128mb of ram,
> >>> Which is going to be the best Linux dist to put on it to learn, I
> >>> could do
> >>> with support for a generic 802.11b wireless card.
> >>

I've got a very small machine (Libretto 50CT - P75, 32Mb RAM) running Damn 
Small Linux - slow, but surprising what it can do - and it handles a wireless 
card.

I've also just put Ubuntu plus Fluxbox onto a Thinkpad with lower specs than 
the one you have, and it's running quite nicely.   It would have been nice to 
put the actual Fluxbuntu distro onto it, but the Ubuntu graphic installer 
doesn't seem to cope with lower memory machines.  I ended up doing an Ubuntu 
server install from the Alternate Install CD, then installing Fluxbox and 
various other stuff over it.   I needed to use ndiswrapper to get the 
wireless running on that one. 

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David Aldred