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Re: Giving Linux a bash
Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 8:40 pm
by BillyGoat
What make/model inky?
Might have spare......
Re: Giving Linux a bash
Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 9:00 pm
by tombarry
I got my old XP from a computer fair many moons ago -but Amazon or others have cheap legal versions
No Linux distro will be like XP completely but some are close like 'Zorin'
http://www.zorin-os.com/
others and Too much info -
http://distrowatch.com/
Re: Giving Linux a bash
Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 8:18 am
by Inky Pete
BillyGoat wrote:What make/model inky?
Might have spare......
It's a Lenovo 3000 N100 (type 0768).
Re: Giving Linux a bash
Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 9:21 am
by Icm76
Inky Pete wrote:Only got half a gig of RAM on the lappy
that changes things a bit, those comments I made earlier about the different desktops - forget them except maybe XFCE for which your system only just meets the minimum recommended spec. Xubuntu and similar will run, but might be a bit of a chore. Perhaps LXDE would be a better choice, so Lubuntu or Fedora LXDE would be a good place to start.
Suggest also looking into getting a RAM upgrade, shouldn't be too expensive to go to 2GB. A small, basic SSD would probably be a revelation as well.
Re: Giving Linux a bash
Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 9:55 pm
by joinerjohn
Dunno if any Linux user here use the Ubuntu Forums, but a heads up if you do. The Ubuntu Forums have been hacked and all usernames and passwords have been stolen. If you happen to use the same passwords for other things, you might just wanna change them.
