Replying to my own post :)<br><br>Under Linux I seem to recall eratic mouse actions.&nbsp; The built in mouse would jump all over the place.&nbsp; I'd be creating a document and the mouse would jump to another line and I would start inserting text there.&nbsp; Happened often.&nbsp; Happened with W$2000 too.&nbsp; Never found a reason.<br><br>Keith<br><br><b><i>keith smith &lt;klsmith2020@yahoo.com&gt;</i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Hi Guys and Gals,<br><br>I have this old (4 year old) Toshiba laptop, 1066MHz Celeron, 256M RAM, and other stuff like a funky display as I recall needed some adjustment under Linux to work properly, and a D-link DWL-G650&nbsp; wireless card.<br><br>Anyone see any reason I could not install Fedora Core 5 or Ubuntu on it.<br><br>I seem to recall I loaded Mandrake 7 or 8 on it 3+ years ago and it ran good, with the exception of the wireless card and the
 display adapter (intel 830m). I know Linux likes more resources these days and is more plug and play.<br><br>I did load Fedora Core 5 on an AMD 500 / 256M RAM - it is marginally slow in X.&nbsp; I'm wondering if I double the RAM if that would make any real difference since free show a limited amount of swap being used?<br><br>I tried to go M$ 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>- - - - - - -<div>    </div><hr size="1">Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman7/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=39666/*http://messenger.yahoo.com">
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