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Poohdaloo

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Hey guys, I want to get your opinion on a few things since there seems to be a lot of techies here.

I have an old IBM Thinkpad laptop (P100, 96MB RAM) with a docking station. I currently have Win98 loaded on it, but I'd like to divulge into another arena. I'm in the IT field now, so I have a good background in the Windows/AS400 platforms, but none in Linux and others.

What would you guys recommend I load on this laptop? I need something that will work "decently" on such an old laptop. I'm mainly going to use it as a learning tool.

*to show you how far away I am from the current IT happenings, I went Googling for information on BeOS* :confused: :tongue: :eek: :D
 
Just find a version of Linux that is not demanding. A lot of the newer Linux versions are designed to utilize the power of new computers, so you may not enjoy the experience of trying to use them on your older laptop. Otherwise it is really just a matter of preference as to which of the Linux distributions you use.

Regards,
-Joshua
 
uhhh... that's one issue. How do I find a distro that's not demanding?

Another option is to dual boot my desktop pc, but I'd rather not go there since I have a useable machine with nothing valuable on it.
 
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