[Lvlug] Recommendations on a More Suitable Distro

[Patrick Bartek]

--- On Mon, 3/22/10, Glen Hartzell <ghhartzell at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Crunch-Bang  is a light version of Ubuntu, so while you wind up with a
> light distro, the nice thing is that you have access to the Ubuntu 
> repositories  and will be able to do the "sudo apt-get install" thing.  As 
> to puppy 4.31, I had some odd intermittant errors and went back to a 
> version called "macpup" which is based on 4.2X. It's a bit slower, but 
> seems to be more solid. Macpup is interesting, comes with the JWM and the 
> Enlightenment e17 window managers. 

Might be an option for the Thinkpad, but installing anything on it is a nightmare of hoop jumping:  It will only boot off a floppy or hard drive.  I chose Debian mainly since it had a floppy boot option that transferred the boot process to an external USB CD-ROM drive with the Install CD in it.  I then distro-upgraded it to Etch over the net.  Not too many distros these days have a floppy boot-install options.

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