[olug] Laptop
Tim & Alethea Larson
thelarsons3 at cox.net
Thu Oct 12 02:55:21 UTC 2006
Daniel Linder wrote:
> 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).
I used Xubuntu for awhile, and liked Xfce for being more responsive than
GNOME. Since it's also based on gtk, it can use a lot of GNOME apps
without loading extra libraries.
I'm a fan of the Blackbox wm, if you're looking to squeeze every ounce
out of limited resources.
Tim
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