[COLUG] Seeking recommendations for Linux distro for ancient laptop

[Duane]

Thomas W. Cranston wrote:

> Be careful about new laptops(& PC's), especially ones preloaded w/Vista.
> I am hearing rumors that MS has convinced manufacturers to use chipsets
> that will only work w/Vista. Would appreciate confirmation of said rumor.

My friend picked up a new Toshiba with Vista and I put 6.06 Ubuntu on
it, the wireless driver kept crashing however.

Upgraded to the Feisty kernel and it hasn't crashed since, the system
had a software driven volume switch which worked fine although I didn't
get too much into the other special/function keys so couldn't tell you
if everything worked, but the most important things did.

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Best regards,
 Duane

http://www.cacert.org - Free Security Certificates
http://www.nodedb.com - Think globally, network locally
http://www.sydneywireless.com - Telecommunications Freedom
http://e164.org - Because e164.arpa is a tax on VoIP
http://www.freeauth.org - Enterprise Two Factor Authentication

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