Re: Linux distro for and older laptop?

Jerry Owens <jrowens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
|| I have an older IBM Think Pad that I would like to load linux
|| on. I wanted to know if anyone had a distribution they would
|| recommend for an older machine, or if I should just install a
|| stripped down mainstream distro such as Red Hat? The machine
|| is a Pentium 2, 233mhz with 64MB of RAM and a 4GB hard drive.
||
|| Thanks,
||
|| Jerry

I run Vector Linux (www.vectorle\inux.com) on a Dell Lattitude
CP M233XT with 64M memory and 4GB harddrive.
Vector Linux 5.1 Std.

BJ
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"Too few people say, 'I'M AN ADULT AND RESPONSIBLE'." -- Unknown


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