[GTALUG] distro for an old Thinkpad

[Evan Leibovitch]

I've had good luck, when I needed it, with Puppy. Reasonable support for devices and an awareness that it'll be used on low horsepower systems. 

HTH. 

- Evan (via mobile)



On 22 Apr 2016, 19:15, at 19:15, "Stewart C. Russell" <scruss at gmail.com> wrote:
>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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