<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:8pt"><div><span>The nice thing, and sometimes frustrating thing about Ubuntu (based on Debian) is that it installs a fairly minimal system which can be a bit easier on older hardware. You will need to install additional packages if you need them. I use it myself and feel good recommending it to others, although 12.x had a few issues :-)</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>I had always used Fedora in
the past; however they (RedHat) liked to install everything including the kitchen sink.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Others could probably shed light on Debian, OpenSUSE, Mint, and others.</span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span
style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Daniel Metcalf <kb3uun@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Discussion of D-RATS <drats_users@intrepid.danplanet.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, January 4, 2014 1:17 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [drats_users] Linux recommendation for older Laptop.<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv5902472436"><div><div dir="ltr">You can try ubuntu 12.04. I am running it on an older Lattitude D830.<div class="yiv5902472436gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv5902472436yqt1506389863" id="yiv5902472436yqt48114"><div class="yiv5902472436gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 2:47 PM, John E. Malmberg <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:wb8tyw@qsl.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:wb8tyw@qsl.net">wb8tyw@qsl.net</a>></span>
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<blockquote class="yiv5902472436gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I have acquired free a used Dell Inspirion 600m laptop with 512 MB<br clear="none">
memory for use in deploying d-rats on.<br clear="none">
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So I am looking for recommendations on which Linux to install on it, as<br clear="none">
the newer versions of the major distributions all require at least 1 GB<br clear="none">
to enable the GUI.<br clear="none">
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It would be useful if the Linux GUI can give the power management<br clear="none">
status, as it turns out the reason the Laptop was free is that there is<br clear="none">
a loose connection on the power jack, so unless the cord is positioned<br clear="none">
correctly, it is not being charged.<br clear="none">
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Regards,<br clear="none">
-John<br clear="none">
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