Linux on laptop

[keith smith]

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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