Re: [Nolug] Given this laptop, which distro would you put on it?

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Dave Prentice <prentice@instruction.com>wrote:

> I put ubuntu on an old IBM Thinkpad a couple years ago. As Petri said,
> video may cause problems. Before you install any distro, be sure to google
> it with the exact model of your laptop. Somebody somewhere already has a fix
> for the video.
> Dave Prentice
>
>
>
> On 4/10/2011 9:18 PM, Petri Laihonen wrote:
>
> I suppose any modern distro would do.
> The problem is the video card capabilities, which I think nvidia should be
> able to handle just fine.
>
> I have even lower end machine which appears to be doing fine, except the
> CPU fan failed. Gotta try to replace it some day. The distro I'm running in
> it is Qimo (Linux distro targeted for children, and it's based on ubuntu)
>
> Yup. Victor needs a computer.
>
> P
>
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Mischa D. Krilov <rossum@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hey gang,
>>
>> I've got an old P4 3GHz Dell machine with a half gig of RAM. Video card is
>> NVIDIA, wireless is some Broadcom that works. Not sure right now if the
>> memory is maxxed out.
>>
>> Given this low-end hardware, what modern distro would you put on this if
>> your primary goal is watching YouTube videos?
>>
>> Mischa
>>
> I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 desktop with File sharing to a 15 client community
accessing graphics files all day long and it's a Dell 8400 P4 3GHz 1GB RAM.

I don't see that you would have problems watching youtube with Ubuntu 10.04.

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