Hey everyone,
Ok, if you all can help I would very much appreciate this! My mother is in the hospital and she is going to be there a few days or more. I have an old laptop I ussually use for command line stuff, but I want to be able to connect through skype to her. The problem is the computer is prolly 15 years old, LOL. It is a netbook-laptop. I need to find the best way to tweak the crap out of this thing to get it to run as well is it can. here is what I am working with. I am not even sure how to get info for hardware, but maybe some of you do.
Specs:
Dell Latitude X200
What I need:
1) Graphic drivers, I don't know where to check for the hardware info. I am assuming that it's the standard card still in it considering it's a laptop.
2) Audio drivers if they don't come with OS iso. I am sure alsa mixer will work tho.
3) A "readyboost" - Linux style option, which I have a feeling is going to be a swap area, but if there is a better more efficient way to do this I would love to hear it. I have a USB 2GB thumb drive I wanna use for ram that I think given the age will work better then the old chip in there anyway.
4) Right now the hard drive is wiped, there is no operating system. I much like everyone can download any Linux OS, but I need to find the best, user friendly, light weight option possible. My mother isn't 100 years old or anything, but she's not as savy as me to say the least with computers so something easy to use would be a 50/50 with performance. I was thinking of putting on Ubuntu 9.10, but if there is an equivalent of say "Win XP Lite" out there I would love to try it.
Anyway I can over clock this thing, tweak it out to make it more efficient is good. I mean this is a dinosaur I am not going to pretend it's anything other then what it is, but she only needs entertainment and I want up to date min by min communication with her and I am home on my computer all day so this seems like it will work.
Anything anyone can think of would help a lot!. I plan on getting back to her in the hospital as soon as all this stuff is worked out and I can bring computer to her.
Thank you a head of time!
Z
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