[ltp] Linux for old Thinkpads: Slackware? Vector? (etc.)

[cr]

On Monday 02 January 2006 08:26, Alex Wenzel wrote:
> > From: linux-thinkpad-admin@linux-thinkpad.org
> > [mailto:linux-thinkpad-admin@linux-thinkpad.org]On Behalf Of Jim Harvey
> > Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 5:50 PM
> > To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> > Subject: Re: [ltp] Linux for old Thinkpads: Slackware? Vector? Zenwalk?
> > Something else?
> >
> > I have Vector 5.1 up on a 770E, mostly using the Fluxbox/ROX desktop.
> > Performance is acceptable and it makes a fine E-Mail/Browser Christmas
> > present machine for my wife.  It took a couple of months to sort out
> > problems with Wireless (Microsoft MN-520 card), sound, and getting the
> > darn fan to come on but I don't think those problems were Slackware
> > specific.
>
> I really dislike ROX and certainly can't explain Fluxbox to the person I'm
> going to give the machine(s) to. I'll probably take IceWM (which I use
> myself, although I'll probably also try something else now) for all its
> Windows-likeness. If only I knew a good desktop other than ROX/Gnome/KDE.
> One that holds real files (i.e. represents some kind of real folder, like
> in Windows or Mac), not only "Pointers" to files/apps. Any ideas?
>
> > I also tried a Knoppix hard drive install, Ubuntu, and SuSE 10 with less
> > than satisfactory results on the 2.5 G root and 2 G /home partitions I
> > set up.
>
> With how much memory? As an alternative to Slack-something, I was actually
> thinking about Knoppix (because of its hardware-detection).

Knoppix's hardware detection is very good.    However, it's a big full-size 
distro and almost certainly much too 'heavy' for your Thinkpads.

A number of other distros use Knoppix's hardware detection routines - IIRC, 
Morphix for example.

cr