[PLUG] which distro for compaq notebook...or am I screwed?

Bill Spears bspears at easystreet.com
Wed May 28 09:32:01 UTC 2003


Matt, regarding Gentoo, I've got a little laptop that I just love.  It's
a Travelmate 330 Pentium II at 400MHz with 64M RAM.  It's now running RH
7.2. If compiling KDE is a problem, then I could use a more light weight
WM. Do you think it would be feasible to install Gentoo?

On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 13:13, Matt Chorman wrote:
> If you are willing to wait for the packages to compile I would suggest Gentoo. 
> It can be intimidating to a newbie.. You basically install and compile your 
> system from scratch. There are no "compatible" systems - it will work for 
> you. 
> 
> Upside: You get a fully optimized system, optimized for your 
> processor/platform. Gentoo has the greatest user forums I've ever seen in my 
> entire life, anywhere, for anything. Easy going, wonderful people who will 
> bend over backwards to help you. Gentoo is quick, and lite if you would like 
> (a bonus for notebooks.) Bonus: You learn how linux works from the ground up.
> 
> Downside: You have to wait for ALL packages to compile. KDE takes ~ 12 hours 
> to compile on an average to modern system. It can be intimidating for a new 
> user to hear "you have to compile everything" (portage does it for you.) You 
> have to download all packages, taking bandwidth and time. Negative: You learn 
> how linux works from the ground up. (haha)
> 
> If you do decide to go with Gentoo, my username on forums.gentoo.org is qubex 
> - I'm always willing to help a newbie with gentoo! :-)
> 
> Matt
> 
> On Tuesday 27 May 2003 04:51 pm, Richard Williamson wrote:
> > I'm dumb!! Went out and bought a notebook (compaq presario 2100)  without
> > checking compatability first. Wanted to install Mandrake but their website
> > says its not compatible.
> >
> > Any distro that will work? I'm a newbie looking for a simple install & nice
> > user interace for a home machine.
> >
> >
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