Old laptop and linux
Last Sunday I bought an old T23 Thinkpad to use for some basic web surfing.. we’ve been using my work T43 and it’s not enough for just one person (despite having the main pc upstairs :/) so I thought I’d cough up £60 for a 2nd hand old laptop.
P1.13GHz, 256MB ram (another 256 on order) etc so it’s not that bad - thing is, XP runs okay and recognises the wlreless card but Linux does not. “XP it is then,” you say but it’s just too much of a dog - Fedora 7 failed badly so I’m downloading Xubuntu as we speak to try it out. With the Resitrcted Driver thing going on it should work - I have a large number of Bookmarked pages from the ubuntuforums.org site ready at my disposal so it should work.
In theort as it’s XFCE based it should be nice and quick, especially when the extra 256MB ram comes in!
November 8th, 2007 at 9:49 am
Where did you find a T23 for £60?
November 8th, 2007 at 11:50 am
Ssh, it’s a secret but http://uk.freeads.net/ . There are loads of cheapo laptops on there, just gotta be lucky that’s all. The one I bought he was selling cheap as the hard drive was faulty (just checked the Seagate website and it’s in warranty till 2010 - free replacement!) so I’m quids in as they say!