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Posted Sep 06, 2008 at 11:01:52 PM
Subject: which version of linux should i pick...
my sister just got a really old bad laptop from my moms old work (it was free) it runs windows 2000 right now but we need a password to make it work. we want to install linux, and we want it installed directly to the hard drive can i have some help please on which versoin to pick... (there ARE different versions, arent their?) P.S. i didnt know were to put this thread
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Posted: Sep 07, 2008 7:03:17 PM
Need mre info as to Cpu speed, ram specs, space on hardrive, cdrom or floppy, USB or not, Computer make and model #.
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Posted: Sep 09, 2008 2:26:03 PM
For a Laptop with windows 2000 I would estimate maybe a Pentium II/III with maybe 256M Ram or less and maybe a 10Gb hard disk. For this I would recommend DSL Linux or Puppy Linux, You will be able to browse the internet, chat, play music and run OpenOffice. Check them out, they both work just fine, but Puppy is better looking DSL: http://www.linux.com/distributions/114380 Puppy: http://www.linux.com/distributions/127897 Good Luck
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