[nflug] best distro for old notebook?

[K O]

LMAO!!! Has someone been getting into the people food, and are you 
suspecting the cat rather than the dog?

I ran up to Red Hat 7.3 on my Pentium 2 300 with 384 MB RAM before the 
processor fan stopped working.  Yes: I realize that Red Hat can be 
considered bloated.  But it wasn't bad in my experience, plus my IBM PC 
Camera did work.  I'm not sure that DSL supports USB, at least out of 
the box, so to speak.  Then again, I don't know how well (if at all) 
wifi works under Red Hat before it split off into Enterprise and Beta, 
er, Fedora.

The 1 package that you will need is ndiswrapper, which allows you to use 
Windows drivers for wireless cards (primarily).  (I'm assuming that you 
don't have one of the few wireless cards that run natively under Linux.) 
  The camera app that I recommend is camstream.  With it you can choose 
filetype, put in a timestamp, and opt reuse the same filename or append 
a timestamp or sequential number.  The setup seems pretty easy.

I'm actually setting this up on my Ubuntu box.  I wonder how my dog 
deals with my absence all day.  I've been wanting to do this for a long 
time, and your post is an impetus to actually get this going.

Robert Stockdale IV pisze:
> I have on old notebook that I want to use with a web cam to monitor pets 
> during the day while at work. The notebook has an AMD K3 300 cpu with 64 
> meg ram and I believe it is either a 3gig or 4gig hard drive. I do 
> however, have an 80 gig external usb hard drive I can use with it. I can 
> use a pc-card wireless to connect to my home network. What would be the 
> best Linux Distro and what packages would I require?
> Thank you.
> Bob
> 
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