[RLUG] Distro for an old laptop

[Todd A. Jacobs]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 02:07:26PM -0700, Lance Orner wrote:

>I've got an old Pentium laptop, and I need a distro recommendation.  I
>use it when I want to little typing away from my main system at home.
>The battery doesn't work, but it has a wireless card and I can boot it
>up next to a power plug.

Damn Small Linux or PuppyLinux can handle your needs quite well, 
provided you have at least 128MB of RAM. If you don't, they may still 
work, but you'll lose the benefit of being able to load the entire 
distro into RAM for speed.

It sounds to me like what you *really* want is to be able to remaster 
DSL. The web site has some howtos for that; I'd stick with what you know 
since all distros involve tradeoffs of some kind.

Also, consider a minimalist Debian or Slackware system. Both are much 
more modular in nature than the big commercial distros, and you can get 
a *very* small footprint with Debian Woody, if you don't mind running 
something out-of-date but still supported.

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