Re: Linux distro for and older laptop?

In <750ha3-4h6.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, on Tue, 24 Jan 2006
07:08:24 GMT, Mark Hobley wrote:
> Segin <segin2005@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Here's a suggestion: DO NOT USE X. If you are going to run Linux, DO NOT
>> USE X ON IT.
>
> I have used X on a Pentium 120 before now.

.... and I've used X on a 486VLB-66/24MBRAM...
excruciatingly; on a K5-75/16MBRAM, quite acceptably,
given the apps I was running at the time.

Thinkpad P-200/64MB was fine for RH 7.1, with X.
I set it up with a menu for my wife to run without WM
or DE, just X + app, when she chose, and in that mode,
it was downright speedy.
.

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