I got an older laptop a little while ago from my mom's company (Xerox) at one of their charity auctions, it's an old dell C600
specs:
PIII 750 MHz
128 MB RAM
10 GB hard drive
what I use it for:
- Wireless Internet
- MSN
- Browsing
- Watching videos/movies
- some coding/web developing
and I'm running XP on it right now.
what I'm basically looking for is an OS that will run faster on this machine than XP will, I'm thinking Windows 2000/NT or mandrake or something along those lines. I'm fine running in linux but my only aprehensions towards linux are difficulty in getting videos to work (I'm aware of mplayer but codecs are tricky, I find) and wireless ability. I've also heard that battery life is decreased due to lack of speed stepping or something of that sort.
Any comments, bits of information or recommendations are welcome, hell even turn this into a my distro is better than yours argument if you want but I'd rather not wait a year for gentoo to compile on this laptop
thanks in advance, Peace
specs:
PIII 750 MHz
128 MB RAM
10 GB hard drive
what I use it for:
- Wireless Internet
- MSN
- Browsing
- Watching videos/movies
- some coding/web developing
and I'm running XP on it right now.
what I'm basically looking for is an OS that will run faster on this machine than XP will, I'm thinking Windows 2000/NT or mandrake or something along those lines. I'm fine running in linux but my only aprehensions towards linux are difficulty in getting videos to work (I'm aware of mplayer but codecs are tricky, I find) and wireless ability. I've also heard that battery life is decreased due to lack of speed stepping or something of that sort.
Any comments, bits of information or recommendations are welcome, hell even turn this into a my distro is better than yours argument if you want but I'd rather not wait a year for gentoo to compile on this laptop
thanks in advance, Peace