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
>
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