Puppy Linux!<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jonathan Hutchins</b> <<a href="mailto:hutchins@tarcanfel.org">hutchins@tarcanfel.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I have an old laptop, IBM Thinkpad 380 Z, that had Mandrake 9.1 installed and<br>running reasonably. It's a low-power system, with only a 300MHz PII, 96M of<br>ram, and a 3G hard drive, but it ran Mandrake reasonably well.
<br><br>Unfortunately, support for 9.1 is no longer available (with good reason, great<br>advances have been made), and that means I can't set up either of my wireless<br>cards, at least not easily.<br><br>I decided to try Kubuntu on it, and used the Alternate CD that's supposed to
<br>allow for older. less powerful systems. The results are pretty poor. The<br>install didn't check to see that I'd passed a custom option to the kernel so<br>it could boot (ide=nodma). It didn't detect the sound system at all (ubuntu
<br>seems to be having some serious problems with sound these days). It failed<br>to detect the CardBus ethernet card at boot, although I was able to configure<br>it. It doesn't appear to have adjusted it's package selection by much; I had
<br>to remove OpenOffice to get enough space to run the initial package update.<br>The install took around eight hours to complete, the package update just<br>finished after over an hour.<br><br>I really haven't had a chance to give the system a fair chance yet, but
<br>looking at how long the text-mode update took, I'm not optimistic.<br><br>I have the CD for DamnSmallLinux, and I will probably try that next. I know<br>some of you have built linux systems on older hardware, and I'd like to know
<br>what you'd recommend for a system of this vintage. Surely there's something<br>as capable today as Mandrake was five (?) years ago?<br>_______________________________________________<br>Kclug mailing list<br>
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