[TriLUG] Looking for a small Linux

[Tom Eisenmenger]

Your IBM has almost the exact same specs as my Dell Latitude C610.  I 
spent a summer installing various distros on it a couple of years back.  
Wi-Fi was a major concern - I had a WaveLan 802.11b card but wanted to 
find a Linux distro that would support my el-cheapo 802.11g without 
relying on ndiswrapper.  The two distros that did so without a hiccup 
were Ubuntu and Mepis.  All the others were wi-fi nightmares.  Both ran 
like scalded cats on the 1GHz PIII, especially the Xubuntu variation.

FWIW, I'm currently trying UbuntuStudio on that Dell which was retired 
last summer, replaced by a Gateway MT6841 (which is also well-supported 
by Ubuntu).

Regards,

Tom Eisenmenger

Jason S. Evans wrote:
> Hi All!
>
> I've got an older laptop that I've been using since I can't afford a new
> one, and I'm looking for a new Linux to put on it, though I think my
> choices are few.  Since there are a multitude of distros out there, I'm
> hoping there's one out there that I haven't tried.
>
> The laptop is a P3 Thinkpad A20m with a 40G hdd and 256M ram running at
> 700Mhz.  I'm currently dual booting XP since I can't VPN into work on
> Linux and Vector Linux which is based on Slackware.  I've tried both Puppy
> and DSL (and DSL-N) on this laptop and they perform wonderfully, but they
> are both really darn limited in what they can do.  I'm looking for a
> distro that has wifi drivers built in, GCC and some kind of IDE like
> Anjuta or Geany because I'm trying to learn C and/or C++, and JRE or at
> least the ability to manually install JRE..  I'm not that picky, really.
> Vector Linux has all of this stuff, but it's fairly slow and Slackware
> doesn't have gnome libraries to install a lot of software that I would
> like to use like Anjuta or Codeblocks.  Any ideas?
>
> Jason
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