--- curt [email protected] wrote:
Hi All,
This should start a raging debate! Are there any opinions regarding a good choice of distro for an older laptop? Thinkpad T22 w/384MB ram and Thinkpad T23 w/512MB ram. My only priorities are quick boot times, wireless support, firefox or opera web browsers and a decent word processor that can save files in .doc format. I've considered DSL, but would prefer reiserfs support.
Thanks, Curt
When I hear the question: "whats a good distro for an *older* laptop", I think that the laptop is going to be some sub-128MB RAM laptop with a 6GB hard drive and a PII processor (or worse). Not a ThinkPad T22 (PIII-1GHz) machine with more RAM and processor power than my Linux test machine!
Seems to me *any* distribution will be just fine for the amount of processor and RAM you have to work with. Debian is the favored child at the moment.
I found a website which covers installing Linux on a Thinkpad T22:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/walter/geek/linux-t22.html
And this link which covers installing Linux on a ThinkPad T23:
http://www.math.uakron.edu/~chad/linux_t23.html
As for wireless support, learn this keyword: "ndiswrapper".
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