[olug] Laptop

[Tim & Alethea Larson]

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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