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I have a laptop with this config: Acer Aspire 3682 WXCi Intel celeron M 1.6 ghz 533MHZ FSB 1MB L2 CACHE RAM 256 (I can upgrade upto 1 G) 60 GB HDD I just want to know which Linux distro will work fine in above config?
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PCLinuxOS[^] has got to be the drop-dead easiest Linux to install - in fact, it's one of the easiest OS installs I have ever experienced. It is also easy to configure, easy to use, and the desktop is flat-out gorgeous. I'm using it more and more and have a feeling that I'll try to find an excuse to upgrade my home development machine so that I can use my current box to run PCLOS. You can check out their hardware database[^] to check if your machine is OK. I would think your laptop is OK since it seems fairly recent. Make sure you have enough RAM (256K minimum - more of course is better) since any Linux distro will run better.
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I have a laptop with this config: Acer Aspire 3682 WXCi Intel celeron M 1.6 ghz 533MHZ FSB 1MB L2 CACHE RAM 256 (I can upgrade upto 1 G) 60 GB HDD I just want to know which Linux distro will work fine in above config?
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I run a dual-boot with PCLinuxOS and it seems to be a nice distro
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
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I have a laptop with this config: Acer Aspire 3682 WXCi Intel celeron M 1.6 ghz 533MHZ FSB 1MB L2 CACHE RAM 256 (I can upgrade upto 1 G) 60 GB HDD I just want to know which Linux distro will work fine in above config?
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I believe PCLOS uses KDE, but don't quote me on this however since I'm still pretty much an ignoramus when it comes to Linux. I've got it running on an old P3/450MHz and it feels like it's running on a P4/3MHz. To be honest, I'm not really running anything too heavy on it right now, but Open Office seems pretty snappy.
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I believe PCLOS uses KDE, but don't quote me on this however since I'm still pretty much an ignoramus when it comes to Linux. I've got it running on an old P3/450MHz and it feels like it's running on a P4/3MHz. To be honest, I'm not really running anything too heavy on it right now, but Open Office seems pretty snappy.
I'm sure you don't mean 3MHz. That's not exactly the fastest clock you could be running at.;P
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I have a laptop with this config: Acer Aspire 3682 WXCi Intel celeron M 1.6 ghz 533MHZ FSB 1MB L2 CACHE RAM 256 (I can upgrade upto 1 G) 60 GB HDD I just want to know which Linux distro will work fine in above config?
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I have a laptopdoorstop with this config: :-)
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I have a laptop with this config: Acer Aspire 3682 WXCi Intel celeron M 1.6 ghz 533MHZ FSB 1MB L2 CACHE RAM 256 (I can upgrade upto 1 G) 60 GB HDD I just want to know which Linux distro will work fine in above config?
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Lot of good advice has been on the earlier posts. I definately would upgrade to 1gb RAM as you will find 256 limiting. You can try Xubuntu http://www.xubuntu.org/[^], as it uses the ubuntu base but has the Xfce desktop environment which is suppose to be less on requirements. Edit: (Hit that post button too fast)... To be honest your hardware is pretty good to try any linux disto. I consider myself a newbie but tried alot of distros, from Xubuntu, Ubuntu, OpenSuse, Mandrake and Fedora, and found Fedora to be my flavour of preference. :-D What i'm trying to say is no matter what anyone tells, the best thing is to try a couple of distros and see which one you prefer. Check out www.linuxquestions.org[^] as they have screenshots of distros and some articles/forum posts that might help. And don't forget to come back and update us on how your doing!!!!!!!:) Good luck Rick -- modified at 17:15 Sunday 22nd July, 2007
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I run a dual-boot with PCLinuxOS and it seems to be a nice distro
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
Psycho-*Coder*-Extreme wrote:
PCLinuxOS
Do you use it with wireless connection? Ubuntu seems to be the friendliest when setting up wireless, just curious about PCLinuxOS and experiences with it. For the heck of it, I am going to go look at it :-D
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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Psycho-*Coder*-Extreme wrote:
PCLinuxOS
Do you use it with wireless connection? Ubuntu seems to be the friendliest when setting up wireless, just curious about PCLinuxOS and experiences with it. For the heck of it, I am going to go look at it :-D
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
Paul Conrad wrote:
Do you use it with wireless connection?
Yeah I'm all wireless here at home and I was surprised at how simple it was to setup. Just entered the network name, the WEP key and I was on in no time.
"Okay, I give up: which is NOT a real programming language????" Michael Bergman
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Paul Conrad wrote:
Do you use it with wireless connection?
Yeah I'm all wireless here at home and I was surprised at how simple it was to setup. Just entered the network name, the WEP key and I was on in no time.
"Okay, I give up: which is NOT a real programming language????" Michael Bergman
Cool, what about WPA, does it support it?
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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Cool, what about WPA, does it support it?
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
Paul Conrad wrote:
Cool, what about WPA, does it support it?
Sorry about that Paul, I forgot I changed to WAP a couple months back (this was my first wireless setup and when I found out WAP is much more secure I changed) so yes it does support WAP. My bad
"Okay, I give up: which is NOT a real programming language????" Michael Bergman
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Paul Conrad wrote:
Cool, what about WPA, does it support it?
Sorry about that Paul, I forgot I changed to WAP a couple months back (this was my first wireless setup and when I found out WAP is much more secure I changed) so yes it does support WAP. My bad
"Okay, I give up: which is NOT a real programming language????" Michael Bergman
Psycho-*Coder*-Extreme wrote:
I forgot I changed to WAP a couple months back
I just did about two/three weeks ago and it broke the wireless with Ubuntu. There are workarounds to get WPA to work on Ubuntu, but there's too much arm twisting involved :laugh: I am going to look at PCLinuxOS then :-D
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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Psycho-*Coder*-Extreme wrote:
I forgot I changed to WAP a couple months back
I just did about two/three weeks ago and it broke the wireless with Ubuntu. There are workarounds to get WPA to work on Ubuntu, but there's too much arm twisting involved :laugh: I am going to look at PCLinuxOS then :-D
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
I didn't have a problem getting it to work on PCLinuxOS, I was rather surprised with how easy it was to setup overall
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
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I didn't have a problem getting it to work on PCLinuxOS, I was rather surprised with how easy it was to setup overall
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
Psycho-*Coder*-Extreme wrote:
I didn't have a problem getting it to work
That is how I felt when I first ran into Ubuntu two years ago. No problem getting wireless to work compared to Redhat. As I post this, I am downloading PCLinuxOS to give it a whirl :-D
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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I didn't have a problem getting it to work on PCLinuxOS, I was rather surprised with how easy it was to setup overall
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
I downloaded it, burned iso to cd, ran it on my laptop, config'ed the WPA on wireless, and posting this message from it :-D "That's no moon, it's a space station" - Obi-Wan Kenobi
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I downloaded it, burned iso to cd, ran it on my laptop, config'ed the WPA on wireless, and posting this message from it :-D "That's no moon, it's a space station" - Obi-Wan Kenobi
Nice isn't it? Its the easiest distro I've found to setup and run. I also like the fact you can run it from the LiveCD before ever installing it.
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
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Nice isn't it? Its the easiest distro I've found to setup and run. I also like the fact you can run it from the LiveCD before ever installing it.
"Well yes, it is an Integer, but it's a metrosexual Integer. For all we know, under all that hair gel it could be a Boolean." Tom Welch
Psycho-*Coder*-Extreme wrote:
I also like the fact you can run it from the LiveCD before ever installing it.
That is really nice. Ubuntu 7 has that feature as well, but the winner with PCLinuxOS is being able to setup the wireless with WPA. Little or no effort, well, only effort was to get up and get the ESSID and PSK :laugh: I have to say it is a very nice Linux distro :-D
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Psycho-*Coder*-Extreme wrote:
I also like the fact you can run it from the LiveCD before ever installing it.
That is really nice. Ubuntu 7 has that feature as well, but the winner with PCLinuxOS is being able to setup the wireless with WPA. Little or no effort, well, only effort was to get up and get the ESSID and PSK :laugh: I have to say it is a very nice Linux distro :-D
I'm rather impressed with it too since I'm really not a Linux "guru". They really made it easy to use. Now if there was just a way to get my development software to work on it I'd be truly happy ;P
"Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey." Bill Gates
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I have a laptop with this config: Acer Aspire 3682 WXCi Intel celeron M 1.6 ghz 533MHZ FSB 1MB L2 CACHE RAM 256 (I can upgrade upto 1 G) 60 GB HDD I just want to know which Linux distro will work fine in above config?
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I'm sure you don't mean 3MHz. That's not exactly the fastest clock you could be running at.;P
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