Damn...wish I had a laptop to play with! Anyone have a spare Mac Powerbook Titanium or G5 PowerBook they aren't using? My borthday is coming up soon... would make one hell of a gift!!!! ;-)
Hmmm...or maybe a nice Toshiba that has been decked to the nines... or hey.. maybe one of those new HP Linux laptops... nahhh not enough guts or hard drive space...... hmmmm.....have to win the lottery I geuss! Or try and get that old Mac PowerBook with no battery doing something..LOL > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Kin C Wong > Sent: January 31, 2005 10:56 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Linux distro for older laptop > > > On 1/29/2005 7:04:19 PM, CLUG General ([email protected]) wrote: > > I'm looking for a decent distro to put onto an older laptop > (Acer TravelMate > > 512DX), with only a 4GB drive. The target system will be used > for software > > development, so will need a development environment. It > should also have a > > graphical interface, but doesn't > > strictly need KDE or Gnome (though the base > > files might be needed for some of the development tools - KDevelop for > > instance). The disto should be pretty lean, but still robust enough to > > handle the above tasks. > > I don't know if this is helpful -- out of the live cds available, people > seem to really like SuSe and Knoppix but I have only had limited success > with them on laptops. The one I have been impressed with is > Lindows or now > with their name change Linspire. It is not the greatest distro > if you know > Linux but for someone like myself, it was a good way to test the > waters. I > have been impressed with it's ability to recognized hardware and run. I > don't know about the development tools. > > I have both the live and the installation if you like to take it for a > spin. Contact me off line and we can make arrangements. (Will likely be > at the Wed meeting but I am close to downtown anyways.) > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
