Thoughts: Puppy Linux 4.3 on Older Laptop
I have played with Puppy Linux before and have always found it well designed and smooth to install. The other day a friend gave me a call and was telling me that at our last LUG meeting ( PQLUG.ORG ) one of our members was trying to find a light weighted Linux that would work on her older Dell 5000 Laptop. Being that the meeting was a couple of days away, I thought I would give a test run of Puppy Linux 4.3 on my Dell 8100 Laptop.
My machine has the following specs:
Pentium III 866 Processor
CD/DVD Drive
384 megs of PC133 RAM
Hard Drive Size - Who cares only using 512 meg Puppy Save File sitting on a Fat16 Partition.
I downloaded the small ISO file of Puppy Linux 4.3 on another machine and made the CD. I already had my Dell 8100 Laptop set to look at the CD/DVD drive so booting up was no issues. After going through a couple of config screens that allowed me to choose my lang/Keyboard and timezone plus Video settings I was then sitting at a fully function Live CD desktop.
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