On 8/16/07, Bob Axtell wrote: > > I have an old Fujitsu laptop (350Mhz, 2G HD); everything works. But it > uses Win98, and they > "say" it can't be updated at all. Suppose I installed Ubuntu, which at > least might give it a few more > quality years. Anybody done that? > > > --Bob My personal web server is such a laptop with Ubuntu, but I don't run the GUI. There are smaller distributions that might be better suited to such a laptop. Peanut Linux, for example. 2GB is a little tight unless you are very careful what software packages you install. My first Linux box was a 200MHz Pentium, and it was plenty fast. But that was ten years ago. Regards, Mark markrages@gmail -- Mark Rages, Engineer Midwest Telecine LLC markrages@midwesttelecine.com -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist