Posted on 11/18/2010 3:53:34 PM PST by West Texas Chuck
I'm about to start learning Fedora Linux and I'd like to build up an older Dell Dimension I have into a box to play on. I was able to get an old copy of Red Hat to load and boot but it's useless because I can't figure out how to get it on my wireless network and besides, I never could figure out anything useful to do with it. I tried PCLinux and Ubuntu but could never get either to boot. I've been told I can boot Linux from a thumb drive and this might be an interesting option so I can keep it as a Win95 box with all my Windows apps still useable.
Try e17 or LXDE... they work great on very old computers... won’t choke up like GNOME or KDE.
The new version of Puppy Linux is now based off Ubuntu for hardware compatibility... particularly with wireless cards plus you can access the universe of Ubuntu repositories for all the free software you’ll ever need and then some.
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