Hello Dan, I'm glad you decided to give Linux a go, however I fear that you might be a little disappointed as the machine you are suggesting trying it is significantly underpowered compared to modern machines.
I used to run on such machines and the 'main' distrobutions will likely run like a dog on it (if at all). Just think how badly XP would run on a 33Mhz (or is that 133MHz?) with 32MByte RAM!! The suggestion to try Puppy Linux (http://www.puppylinux.org) is a good one, as this distrobution is intended for older machines. I would also suggest that you look into the lighter weight managers/desktops. Although almost all graphic interfaces us the X system, as a user you have a choice of window managers. The bigest of these (such as KDE or gnome) also start up a whole load of other features which will bog down slow machines. A overview of the 'simpler' windows managers can be found here: http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Window_manager One of the great things about Linux is the choice, unfortunately this make the chosing process more difficult (yes, I always take ages in Blockbuster ;-). If you wanted to try XFCE, there is a Ubuntu varient called Xubuntu (see http://xubuntu.org) If you wanted to try Fluxbox, there is a Ubuntu varient called Fluxbuntu (see http://fluxbuntu.org) I suspect with so little RAM in the machine you will not be able use the LiveCDs at these often require quite a bit, however you should be able to install to the harddisk using the alternative CD/ISOs. Just to note, you can quite happily install the base bits of a modern distro (without KDE/gnome) and then install a simpler window manager. For Ubuntu use the alternative CD/ISO to give you a text based enviroment and then use 'sudo apt-get install fvwm' to install fvwm (for example). You don't say whether that machine has a CD drive (I assume so), overwise things get a little more difficult - but never impossible and there are lots of tricks to get arround this.... Appologies if this seems like brain overload, just remember there's lots of us who can help your through the install process and get you running. Email here, or catch us at one of the meetings/install fests.... Have fun, Simon. On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:38:27 -0600 "Dan Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, Im new. I am currently a windows 2000 and xp user and am considering > trying out this linux system. I wanted to try it out on an old toshiba > laptop. its a 440 satalite or something like that. I believe a 33 mhz, 32 > meg ram and a 1 gig hdd. it has a 14.4 modem in it aswell and currently > loaded with win 98. is this doable or do i need to look at something else. > I also hace a pc running win 2000 which i might consider loading another > operating system on it as long as i will always have the win 2000 on it > untill im comfortable with linux. > > Any input would be appreciated. > > Dan > _______________________________________________ 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
