On 12/29/05, Bill Cavalieri <bcavalieri@lumensoftware.com> wrote:
On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 14:20 +0000, Luke-Jr wrote:
> On Thursday 29 December 2005 08:57, Leo Mauler wrote:
> > As for wireless support, learn this keyword: "ndiswrapper".
>
> ndiswrapper is just a hack to use immoral drivers. Not a real solution at all.
>
When my options are no wireless support or ndiswrapper, feels like a
solution to me.
I do agree with Luke in that I too feel icky using cheap hacks/workarounds to make stuff work but at the same time its the only thing you've got. I too use ndiswrapper and went through hell and back to make it work properly. There are compatible cards out there, but not many. Stuff like this is going to continue to happen until Linux becomes more mainstream. Although this kind of stuff also happens in the windows world too. I've seen many posts on message boards about people who have trouble finding anything that has drivers for Windows XP x64 edition. But thats just a part of using an alternative operating system. Sometimes you get lucky, other times you have to work with it. Unless of course your on a Macinotosh but thats another boat in a different sea.
As for the original question its pretty much been answered. You can use whatever distro you want considering your "older" laptop seems to be a little more powerful than you might think. Its just a matter of getting the right hardware and software. If you still feel as though its a little slugish just use Fluxbox or XFCE or whatever you prefer instead of kde/gnome.