I can prove that Linux rocks on those machines. I got an old X31 running
Xubuntu and it does the job as surfing machine and E-Mail reader. It
works pretty well with Windows XP too,
although I failed to reinstall Windows on my mothers X32 through the
lack of an optical drive. How did you do it?
Felix
Am 09.08.2011 00:40, schrieb David Ross:
If your XP installation disk version postdated the X32 (like your
Ubuntu 10.4 disk does, in spades), then it should have found working
drivers. Even if it predated the X32, the X32's ethernet hardware
well predates XP so the XP install should have found it . Is your XP
install disk is some highly customized OEM version?
Linux screams on the X3* series. You could install a lightweight
Linux (like Lubuntu) and an office suite (like Koffice), install
Oracle's Virtual Box, and install XP as a virtual machine. Then you
don't need to worry about the drivers. Games won't run well, but they
never did on this series anyway.
David
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