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Old October 28th, 2007, 10:04 AM
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Got a new laptop and a question
i am not sure if this is the right place to post this but i got an old viao the other day and i want to install linux on it but i am not sure which on will run the best on the vaio cause right now it has windows 98 and doesnt run so well i dont have the specs on it right now cause i am not home but when i get home i will get them but which distro do you guys think i should install on it so that it will run better?
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Old October 29th, 2007, 01:16 AM
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well i dont have much experience with old laptops and distros. since my laptop was practically better than my desktop (dual core, 2GB ram, 120 GB HD)
but i would try out opensuse 10.3
how much linux experience do you have? because you may get a distro that is small, but really really hard to learn on. if thats the case, i would definitely susgest opensuse 10.3. you cant go wrong with it.
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i have had some experince with linux but it is just some messing around with some live cds didnt really learn how to use it to much i have tryed untubu(sp?) but i dont really like it to much i will check out opensuse, i am just looking for a distro that is fairly easy to learn and easy to install stuff or they have good support for it.

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try pupplinux, damn small linux, xubuntu.
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i am just looking for a distro that is fairly easy to learn and easy to install stuff or they have good support for it.

then look no further! you can try it out. if you have any questions just ask me. the only prob i see is your computer is realllyyyy old. so you might have to go with damn small linux (dsl)
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ya that is what i have been looking into but i have to do a frugl(sp?) install to install it on the hd and i dont know how to do that, and also it doesnt have a cd rom dive built in and the person i bought it from says he has one but he might not be able to find it, so is there a way to even install a new os with out it?
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I know it's quite old topic but maybe it will be useful to someone.
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ubuntu

very easy to use, install etc... you should try it. I have tested PcLinuxOs on HP notebook and it was ok. Everything should work.
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