[olug] Laptop

Daniel Linder dan at linder.org
Tue Oct 10 04:37:16 UTC 2006


On Tue, October 10, 2006 00:08, Kelly Williams wrote:
> I have a Gateway Solo 5150 P2 300, 96mb ram, 20 gig hd. I have been
> wanting
> to put linux on this laptop what would be the best. I have tried slackware
> 8
> and it ran good but I need the sound to work and the NIC. Any ideas...

Not to start a distro-war, but you might want to check out Xubuntu.  It's
a distribution of Ubuntu, but with the lighter XFce window manager (less
RAM requirents).

Dan


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