On 8/17/07, Xiaofan Chen <xiaofanc@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/17/07, Bob Axtell <engineer@cotse.net> 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?
> >
>
> What is the memory size? Windows 98SE is fine with low memory
> (say 128MB or even 64MB). Modern Linux with GUI does not like that.
> 2GB is also too little.

I mean 2GB HDD is also too little.

> 9 years ago, my brother and I shared a computer (PII 350, 64MB
> SDRM later to 384MB, 6GB HDD later to 6GB+8GB) and we
> ran Windows 98SE and Linux. As of today, he is still running
> this computer as a backup.
>
> To me modern Linux with KDE/Gnome is not for ancient
> hardware.
>
> Still you might try Xubuntu.
>
> Regards,
> Xiaofan
>
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