Linux on "old school" notebook

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Hi All,

Looking for recommendations as for what to put on a newly obtained laptop. It's a bit under powered (1.2Ghz Centrino chip with 512 MB RAM). On my main box I run Debian but I'm guessing this laptop would be suited to something a little more light weight.


I'm not really bothered what distro it's based on (though clearly one based on Debian would be nice). Though I'd be looking for excellent wireless support and XFCE.

Perhaps Xbuntu?

Cheers

Dangerstat
 
Well I've decided to chuck Debian on it anyhow, will remove gnome and just run with xfce. Will be interesting to see how it copes with gnome on first launch though :0
 
Because you will be installing a ton of crap you don't need on an underpowered machine?
Upto you of course, it's your machine to do with as you wish. :)

Let us know how you get on with the wireless.

True, but it's not really hard disk space that is an issue to be fair.

Wireless = no luck, though it is recorded properly in lspci

To be honest - performance wise it's not coping to badly with gnome :eek:
 
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