[SLL] Best Distro for PIII Dell Inspiron 8000 laptops

[Mr.Scrooge]

--- Abha Harting <abhaha at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a friend who works with native communities in the Amazon under his
> own non profit. He is a radio geek and he sets up radio communications for
> them. He has also gotten them a number of computers mostly set up with
> Windows since that is what they know.
> 
> He likes Linux and wanted to install Ubuntu on some used laptops he recently
> acquired, but that has not worked out. He loses the display post install. He
> is not a Linux geek, so he would hope to not have to go to the command line
> to fix it. Also, I had found a link stating that Ubuntu has a problem with
> thrashing laptop hard drives:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/59695  I have
> the same model myself and I had put Mandrake 10.1 on it in the past with no
> problems, but that was the i386 version. That laptop model was certified for
> Mandrake in earlier versions. Currently I noticed that the current MANDRIVA
> download is i586. I installed it on an older desktop and post install (the
> install seemed to run OK), it would NOT even boot. Now that was
> disappointing.
> 
> My friend would like to install a distro that will work positively for his
> clients. I would hope so too so that their first exposure to Linux would be
> good. Currently they are often using pirated copies of Windows software.
> 
> So, any suggestions?

I have Vector Linux running on an old Toshiba Tecra 8000 Laptop that had video issues with ubuntu.
I don't use the old thing much but it works ok. Simply Mepis also ran on the old Toshiba Tecra
8000 for a while as well as Open SuSe 10.2 . It was slow but usable(sub-500 mhz cpu and 256MB
RAM).

-Max


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