I've had good luck, when I needed it, with Puppy. Reasonable support for devices and an awareness that it'll be used on low horsepower systems.
HTH. - Evan (via mobile) On 22 Apr 2016, 19:15, at 19:15, "Stewart C. Russell" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi - I've been setting up an old Thinkpad R51 as Protolab's small CNC >controller. I've been trying to use Debian 8, but it seems not to like >the Radeon 250M in the machine at *all*. I'm stuck with "an error >occurred / click here to log out", and no sshd to access the machine >remotely. > >Can anyone suggest a light(ish) graphical distro that's user focussed >and will allow fairly recent packaged apps like Cura and LinuxCNC to >run? I realise that this Thinkpad is slower than a Raspberry Pi 3 (I >benchmarked it) but it does have a parallel port that we can use with >the ZenBot CNC. > >cheers, > Stewart > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >--- >Talk Mailing List >[email protected] >https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
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