Endy wrote: > I have an eight year old laptop, currently running win2k, that I want to > put linux on. It's a pentium 1, 48 megs of ram, about 1.9 gig > harddrive, an old chips and technologies video card ( i think). All it > really needs is a text editor, graphical browser, email client, and aim > client. A year ago it had mandrake 9.2 on it and that ran much faster > than win2k. Any recommendations for a good distro for this laptop? There are various small Linux distributions. One that seems popular is called Puppy. But personally, I would see if I could install more memory, and a larger disk, without too much trouble or expense. If I couldn't I'd be inclined to pass on to another project ... -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
