I had a very similar laptop and Ubuntu worked fine. I am not sure about Dapper Drake version but version 5.1 worked very well. Joe keith smith wrote: > Hi Guys and Gals, > > I have this old (4 year old) Toshiba laptop, 1066MHz Celeron, 256M > RAM, and other stuff like a funky display as I recall needed some > adjustment under Linux to work properly, and a D-link DWL-G650 > wireless card. > > Anyone see any reason I could not install Fedora Core 5 or Ubuntu on it. > > I seem to recall I loaded Mandrake 7 or 8 on it 3+ years ago and it > ran good, with the exception of the wireless card and the display > adapter (intel 830m). I know Linux likes more resources these days and > is more plug and play. > > I did load Fedora Core 5 on an AMD 500 / 256M RAM - it is marginally > slow in X. I'm wondering if I double the RAM if that would make any > real difference since free show a limited amount of swap being used? > > I tried to go M$ free in 2000 and did so for about 8 months. It was > tough. Switched back to M$ for desktop stuff. I'm hoping to go > mostly (my wife's Dell runs XP-Pro) M$ free and this would be step 2 > or 3 in the process. > > Any feedback much appreciated. > Keith > > > - - - - - - - > Keith Smith > - - - - - - - > http://travelingcheese.com/search_engine/increase-search-engine-traffic.html > - - - - - - - > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great > rates starting at 1¢/min. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > __________ NOD32 1.1822 (20061021) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss