[GTALUG] distro for an old Thinkpad

[Stewart C. Russell]

Hi - I've been setting up an old Thinkpad R51 as Protolab's small CNC
controller. I've been trying to use Debian 8, but it seems not to like
the Radeon 250M in the machine at *all*. I'm stuck with "an error
occurred / click here to log out", and no sshd to access the machine
remotely.

Can anyone suggest a light(ish) graphical distro that's user focussed
and will allow fairly recent packaged apps like Cura and LinuxCNC to
run? I realise that this Thinkpad is slower than a Raspberry Pi 3 (I
benchmarked it) but it does have a parallel port that we can use with
the ZenBot CNC.

cheers,
 Stewart
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