Now accepting suggestions...

[pyoor_excuse]

So, I'm now accepting suggestions for operating systems for my Dell Laptop. It's a 450ish Mhz CPiA laptop with (quite a lot) of memory (256Meg?). I've tried Ubuntu. Ubuntu:

- Out of the 'box' it failed to boot twice
- Fails to work with my network card (I've tried everything they suggest, with the exception of installing Raconfig, which wouldn't build. I've installed RuTilt which is the other suggestion, which informs me it can't get the Tx rate and then does nothing else).
- Has updated software on it and now won't load at all
- Is therefore not likely to win any awards from me

I was thinking about Gentoo, but I think my machine may not be high enough spec for Gentoo. And I'm not sure I have the patience. With one unreliable pc, and one no-working-install laptop I'm kinda keen to get a working machine pretty quickly. Although it goes against my better nature, I'm currently downloading Redhat / Fedora 6. I am really keen not to end up back with Windows, I was moderately impressed by Ubuntu's picking up and running with the windows network, but the fact it's stone cold dead now, that doesn't impress me.

Comments

[inksafe.livejournal.com]

I understood the words Dell and laptop. The rest put a big, fat question mark over my head. I am so ashamed of my geek-less-ness *hangs head*

[pyoor_excuse]

Aww *pets you*

Just spend some time with me, the geekiness rubs off...

Although I loose geek cred for my kit being well and truly at the lower end of the market.... I don't care though, I'm happy that way :-)

[c0re-dump.livejournal.com]

I don't think you lose any geek points for old hardware! Surely anybody can grab the latest kit from PC World, whereas only a true connoisseur would have a machine running BeOS and another running RiscOS? And surely the quintessential geek operating system, Linux, is running somewhere at your place? Even if it is on a handheld!

Anyway, as someone said on the ClassicCmp list the other day, it's not just computers, it any kind of intricate mechanism that counts. E.g. Morris Minor, MZ, CED, whatever.