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i recently recieved a dell lattitude cp w win 98 128mb ram. is there a version of linux that would function or should i abandon ship?...
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not enough ram?
i recently recieved a dell lattitude cp w win 98 128mb ram. is there a version of linux that would function or should i abandon ship?
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Originally Posted by pablodamon 
Give it to me, I'll Load Damn Small Linux, or Debian, or Puppy 2.15, or Slack on it.Linux Registered User # 475019
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Or if you want to go even smaller than look at Slitaz at SliTaz GNU/Linux - Home page
Previously it didn't have support for wireless but it now says it does.
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xubuntu would run just fine on that machine if you had enough disk, I think like 5gb, other than that I would say debian would make a good choice, you don't need to go with DSL unless you have a small disk, you should be able to get a full system up and running including X on debian in under 1gb, including a fair amount of other applications for web browsing, e-mail, etc.
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Wikipedia says:
Once installed, Xubuntu can run with 192 MB RAM, but it is strongly recommended to have at least 256 MB RAM.
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i recently recieved a dell lattitude cp w win 98 128mb ram. is there a version of linux that would function or should i abandon ship?
page 1 of the setup screen has the following info:
dell latitude cp 233xt bios version a13
pentium-233 mhz/mmx
level 2 cache 512 kb
system memory 128 mb
video controller neomagic 2160
video memory 2 mb
audio controller crystal 4237b
primary hard drive 4100 mb
it came with a d link fast ethernet 10/100 mbps cardbus pc card
d-link model dfe-690txd
it also came with a 3com us robotics 56k modem pc card model 3056
the laptop has a single usb port, vga port, printer port etc.
i am totaly new to linux, and want to do this!!
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have you looked at this stickey on the forum yet?
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...s-laptops.htmlLinux Registered User # 475019
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