Shawn! (Jarrod also take note - I'm running this on my CF-25 (166/96ram) and it works like a charm).
I just read: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=9569 and discovered BeatrIX http://www.watsky.net It's perfect! a nice tight light little distro based on Ubuntu (debian based). Out of the box it's pretty limited, but you are just a few "apt-get install"s away from a really clean little workhorse (draws from the Ubuntu deb repository . Unfortunately it is only gnome based (at the kernel level apparently). So if you're not into gnome, you might need to keep looking. But otherwise it'll do nicely. Nice network/wireless setup tools too. enjoy Marcel On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 19:04 -0700, Shawn wrote: > I'm looking for a decent distro to put onto an older laptop (Acer TravelMate > 512DX), with only a 4GB drive. The target system will be used for software > development, so will need a development environment. It should also have a > graphical interface, but doesn't strictly need KDE or Gnome (though the base > files might be needed for some of the development tools - KDevelop for > instance). The disto should be pretty lean, but still robust enough to > handle the above tasks. > > Thus far, we've tried Suse 9.2, VidaLinux (install failed), and Ubuntu (Live > CD - networking problems with it). We'll keep trying things over the > weekend, but maybe someone will have suggestions for another disto well > suited for this laptop? (NOTE: This is NOT a call for a distro war.. > <grins>) > > Thanks for any ideas. > > Shawn > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
