I’ve an old Advent 7250 that has a similar spec to this.
It currently has 127MB Ram and is running Windows XP Home Sp3.
I’m wondering if there is a particular flavour of Linux that might be suitable for it?
Looking to use it to get up to speed on Linux really, and maybe as a lightweight .pdf reader etc.
Many thanks,
Craig
Thanks Darrell, can most probably set up a new partition and try things out that way. (and thanks for the comment about the site
Hi John, does the audio utility on the top task bar find your audio device? If it does , does it correctly list it?
If not then open a terminal and type the following to tell us what it is
“lspci -vv | grep -i audio”
Wihout the quotes and post the results.
Nick
Many thanks for all the helpful tips and recommendations, will be off for an explore.
All the best,
Craig
I used Xubuntu on a really old laptop - don’t remember the spec - it couldn’t handle stock Ubuntu but Xubuntu worked great:
http://www.xubuntu.org/
Well spotted about the memory for Lubuntu Chris, installing the minimalist version of Lubuntu I guess would not have allowed Craig to experience it properly.
Chrome 5.0.375 here on Lucid Lynx - not experiencing any problems with the site.
SFN on Chrome is a bit flaky on OSX too.
Thanks chaps, will take a look.
Hi Craig
There is a lightweight Linux distribution called LUBUNTU, I use the full-fat version UBUNTU and like it very much.
Here’s a review and instruction page…
http://www.linuxcritic.com/lubuntu-linux-distribution-lxde-fans/
Cheers
Steve
PS. The Lubuntu site is currently down but ought to be up soon.
Craig,
I would of thought DSL linux would be a good choice. There are a lot of distro’s to choose from so take a look at…
http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions/
and
http://www.linux.org/dist/list.html
Hope this helps…
Bob