Hi Guys and Gals,<br><br>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&nbsp; wireless card.<br><br>Anyone see any reason I could not install Fedora Core 5 or Ubuntu on it.<br><br>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.<br><br>I did load Fedora Core 5 on an AMD 500 / 256M RAM - it is marginally slow in X.&nbsp; 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?<br><br>I tried to go M$ free in 2000 and did so for about 8 months.&nbsp; It was tough.&nbsp; Switched back to M$ for desktop stuff.&nbsp; 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.<br><br>Any feedback much appreciated.<br>Keith<br><BR><BR>- - - - - - - <br>Keith Smith<br>- - - - - - - <br>http://travelingcheese.com/search_engine/increase-search-engine-traffic.html<br>- - - - - - -<p>&#32;
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