Any thoughts with running Slitaz ? ( http://www.slitaz.org/en/ )
This distro intrigued me because it seems to be lightweight and has the ability to create a custom live CD. I wanted to roll my own live CD enabling me to identify all of the system hardware inside the machine. I haven't done it ... yet. On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Simon Royal <[email protected]> wrote: > * Replies will be sent through Spamex to [email protected] > * For additional info click -> http://www.spamex.com/i/?v=41128227 > > > Hi. > > I have been running Puppy Linux on my ThinkPad 600 for a few days. It is the > best distro I have tried on it in terms of speed, but it is a little limited. > The software repositories are small and getting sound to work is a pain. > > It is a 300Mhz ThinkPad 600 and at present it only has 160MB of RAM. When I > first got it, I wanted to run some kind of *buntu distro. I know Ubuntu > probably will never run on it, so I was looking around at lighter versions. > > I ran Crunchbang for a little while, but even that struggled. > > Would adding another 128MB of RAM make a lot of difference or is it more of > the processor speed that is making this machine slow? > > The hard drive in it is a 4200RPM drive, would upping it to 5400 or 7200RPM > drive make any difference? It did in an Apple PowerBook I had about a year > ago. > > Would Xubuntu run comfortable on a 300Mhz with 288MB of RAM? > > What would your advice be. What do you lot recommend. I don't have any money > to buy a new laptop so I need to get as much out of this as I can. > > Regards > > Simon Royal > > --- Catch me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal or Skype: Simon-Royal > > > _________________________________________________________________ > We want to hear all your funny, exciting and crazy Hotmail stories. Tell us > now > http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
