View Full Version : I'm SO Excited!!!!!
daisyfoofpoof
March 4th, 2009, 07:09 PM
Hey guys, sorry, this is kind of a pointless thread, but I'm just so darn excited! My sister is getting a new computer today, and giving me her old one and I'm gonna install Ubuntu over XP immediately. I'm so freaking excited!!!!! :D
s.fox
March 4th, 2009, 07:14 PM
Freebies are always good (most of the time :) )
What are the specifications on the machine?
adamlau
March 4th, 2009, 07:18 PM
Throw Arch on it :) .
namegame
March 4th, 2009, 07:40 PM
Throw Arch on it :) .
Or any other distribution for that matter. :)
You have available hardware to experiment with. There are plenty of other good/interesting/stable/amazing/etc distributions out there. :)
However, ultimately I recommend Arch. :P
gymophett
March 4th, 2009, 08:04 PM
Cool! I'd be excited too. What are the laptop specs?
And I recommend Ubuntu, while some are recommending Arch, but it's strictly up to you.
Eisenwinter
March 4th, 2009, 08:21 PM
Put either Arch, Gentoo, CRUX, or one of the BSDs on it, and play around with those systems.
S0VERE1GN
March 4th, 2009, 09:25 PM
i got a new lappy (http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4008406&CatId=3987)today as well!!!
the old one will become a LAMP server for my new website.
yea try ARCH linux, i still fear it, but you can brave those waters and tell me all ab out it :-p
daisyfoofpoof
March 4th, 2009, 11:02 PM
I've never heard of Arch...hm, well it's a Dell D505, it has a 30GB hd and i think 128mb of RAM, pretty crappy, but Ubuntu runs very smoothly on it.
billgoldberg
March 4th, 2009, 11:04 PM
I've never heard of Arch...hm, well it's a Dell D505, it has a 30GB hd and i think 128mb of RAM, pretty crappy, but Ubuntu runs very smoothly on it.
Yeah right.
I would at least up the ram to 512mb and even then I would still use Arch + Fluxbox combined with lightweight apps.
Skripka
March 4th, 2009, 11:05 PM
I've never heard of Arch...hm, well it's a Dell D505, it has a 30GB hd and i think 128mb of RAM, pretty crappy, but Ubuntu runs very smoothly on it.
Tisk....life without Arch is a terrible thing. And Ubuntu with only 128MB of RAM may be frustrating as per billgoldberg points out.
See links in my sig for more.
swoll1980
March 4th, 2009, 11:16 PM
I got a free p4 3.0/512/800 1GiB RAM laptop last week cause the screen was broke. Cha-ching!
RichardLinx
March 5th, 2009, 12:05 AM
@OP You should try running CrunchBanbg Linux on it, it's based off Ubuntu and is designed to be very light weight.
Bart_D
March 5th, 2009, 03:42 AM
... it's a ....128mb of RAM, pretty crappy, but Ubuntu runs very smoothly on it.
Oh comeon! You're yanking our chains.
BGFG
March 5th, 2009, 04:00 AM
Try Crunchbang! Ubuntu Based, Openbox front end...
Edit :Ummm, Yeah what Richardlinx said. oops :)
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