Ubuntu "Lite"

[Colin McDermott]

Good to hear that you are interested.

www.ubuntulite.org and download the image from there (will erase your hdd)

>>I have an generic legacy laptop with 350 MHZ CPU, 255
MB of RAM and 4 GB Hardrive.

My system is a 400mhz 292mb system with a 20gb hard drive and it runs 
ubuntu lite more then fine.
A 128mb p200 with 3gb hard drive runs ubuntu lite rather well. No 
promises but it should be better then ubuntu in performance on that 
system. But I still find the system useable on 64mb of ram.

 >> So, I am hoping Ubuntu Lite truly lives up to legacy

support

Same here. I have not tested it on a laptop yet.

>> 
but the key to putting Linux back on my
legacy laptop for me is the ease of getting wireless
to work on it.

I have not tried this for lack of both a wireless lan card and a laptop. What you should be able to do though is configure it as per normal in Ubuntu unless it depends on Gnome (since ubuntu lite is a server/minimal install of ubuntu + icewm and more). You may be able to configure it via the live cd and just pinch the config file. Either way let me know how you go.

 >> Finally, I do think it might help if Ubuntu Lite came

in Live-CD form too (if it all ready does -  please
excuse my ignorance). With a Live-CD form I could at
least try it out and see if I can get it to work with
my wireless hardware.

I'm working on it. Give me more time!

Cheers

-- 
Colin McDermott
Reboot Computer Reuse centre
Ubuntu Lite
http://groups.google.com.au/group/ubuntu_lite