Linux friendly computer retailers in Toronto

[Taavi Burns]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 10:13:05AM -0500, Paul DiRezze wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> I've been trying to install Fedora, Mandrake and Gentoo linux on two 
> machines:
> An old Dell Inspiron 3500 notebook
> A clone I inherited from an old business
> 
> I've got fedora installed on the notebook but I'm finding that the system 
> is just too slow and I'm losing patience with using it (PII 266 mHz, 128 MB 
> RAM)

What desktop environments have you been trying with that?  With only 128MB of RAM,
recent versions of Gnome and KDE are likely to cause massive amounts of swapping.

I've heard good things about XFCE as a lightweight window manager, and that it
works well with the ROX file manager.  It should scream (in a very good way) on a
machine like you've described, as I generally hear about it being used reasonably
on a 486.

You can very likely get away with KDE or Gnome if you're very strict about what
parts you run (disabling all unnecessary daemons) and the visual effects used (i.e.
don't use any at all).

> I think the clone's motherboard is screwed because I can't get the 
> integrated networking or video work with any of the distributions I have.

Might just be entirely unsupported hardware.  What do you get when you run
'lspci' as root?

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