On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 11:07:37AM -0500, Chris Frederick wrote: > I may be getting a new (and I use that term loosely) laptop. It's a > pentium (unknown mhz) with 16M ram, 500M hard drive, and built in > floppy. It has Win95 installed right now and I was wondering if it > would work as an X client connecting to a remote X server through wifi > (802.11b or g if it can handle that). Or is this too slow? And are > there any recommendations on distros that would load easily on this? To echo others, a pentium should work fine as thin terminal. Stick with a lighter window manager like fvwm. If you could scrounge up alittle more memory that would help it run much better, but 16 MB is manageable. As far as installation goes, I would try to do a network install. Floppy installs can be painful. I would suggest installing Debian - http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install . -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Never laugh at live dragons |Dmitry's free,Jon's next? http://faircopyright.org _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list