[nflug] Linux for a (very) old notebook

[Eric Benoit]

:) I'm almost positive it was debian etch now that I think about it.

ice weasle worked well and so did oowriter... though searching the 
internet was not a fast experience because the of the limitations of the 
hardware... there was also the issue of java... and flash seemed to slow 
things down even further.


Joe wrote:
> Hi.  I just got a cheap notebook - very old.  It's a Celeron running Win
> 98 (until I convert it to Linux - hopefully.)  (Sony Vaio PCG-N505VE
> 333MHz, 128MB Ram, 6GB HDD).
>
> My old desktop is still working fine with Mandrake 9.1 and I have
> kubuntu gutsy on my recent notebook, so those are the distros I am
> familiar with (both use kde).
>
> This "new" notebook can't handle a latest-greatest distro.
>
> What distro(s) would be a good match for this oldie?
>
> I plan to use it primarily for writing text documents with OOo writer
> and for web browsing with Firefox.
>
> Any ideas appreciated - especially about which distros might do the best
> job of hardware detection.
>
> TIA
>
> Joe
>
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