[WLUG] Question which distro?

[Tom Genyk]

Dear washlug,

I took a course in Unix and a course at Linux at WCC a few years ago, but
have not touched Linux since.  I do have a computer background.

I have been surfing the web to find a distro for an old laptop that I
inherited.  I want to replace Windows XP with a Linux distro.  Here are the
specs to the computer:

*Toshiba Satelite: *

Processor and Chipset

 • Intel® Celeron® M Processor 380

o 1.60GHz, 1MB L2, 400MHz FSB

• ATI RADEON® XPRESS 200M Chipset



Memory

 • Configured with 256MB DDR2 SDRAM (both memory slots may be

occupied)

• 256MB(min)/2048MB (max), 2 memory slots using 512MB PC4200

DDR2 533MHz SDRAM, dual-channel support requires two

memory modules of same capacity and clockspeed



Hard Disk Drive

 • 60GB (5400RPM) Serial-ATA (SATA) hard disk drive; 9.5mm

height; user removable

Fixed Optical Disk Drive



• CD-RW/DVD-ROM

o Maximum speed and compatibility: CD-ROM (24x:read),

CD-R (24x:write), CD-RW (10x:write), DVD-ROM

(8x:read)



Display

 • 15.4” diagonal widescreen TruBrite™ TFT active-matrix LCD

display at 1280x800 native resolution (WXGA)



Graphics

 • ATI MOBILITY™ RADEON® Xpress 200M 64MB-128MB

dynamically allocated shared graphics memory



*Sound*

• Built-in stereo speakers

• SRS Labs audio enhancements

 o SRS TruSurround XT® virtual surround sound

 o SRS WOW™ stereo enhancement

• Realtek 861 16-bit stereo software sound

 o Direct 3D Sound, DirectSound, Direct Music, MIDI

(playback)

 o HD Audio

• Sound Volume Control Dial

I will be using this laptop for home office.  Maybe some graphics and
access to the Web. I would want a GUI interface. '
'
I have done some research on the Web.  Here are the distros I found that I
thought would be appropriate.  They are all small distros:
Mint Xfce Linux
Puppy Linux

 psychoslinux


What is your opinion?  I live here in Washtenaw County.  Thank you.
-- 
God's Peace,
Tom Genyk
tgenyk at gmail.com
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