Compaq Presaro Laptop

[geoffrey mendelson]

On Jul 6, 2009, at 8:02 PM, mbrace7forums at aim.com wrote:

> Specifications
>
> 4GB Hard Disk 128 MB Ram, hard disk is partitioned 2.5 Gb and 1.5.Gb.
>
> I got given this little old laptop it runs Windows XP Pro very well  
> indeed. It works Office 2000 programmes OK. I am thinking of  
> replacing it with a Linux distro. Any ideas on this all welcome!
>
> Obviously heavy graphics is not the use. I won't upgrade the HD or  
> RAM there is however a USB socket, and it gets onto the Internet  
> with ease and speed via the Siemens Router.



UBUNTU 9.04 Netbook Respin. Just be advised that Ubuntu in general  
suffers from the same disease that Fedora suffers from, the desire to  
update everything everyday, with minimal testing. You can download it  
as a live CD or a USB memory stick image, so you can try it without  
changing the harddrive.

RHEL or one of it's free clones if you want something stable, but 4g  
may be too small for a workstation loaded with programs.

Note that if it has an 802.11B Wifi card and everyone else on the same  
network is using 802.11G,  or 802.11N, you will be slowing them down  
and if they figure out it is you, they may not be happy.

Geoff.



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