How much Protection do I need/How do I make it go faster?

[-Demosthenes-]

Found a couple hours the other day, got it working using the drivers that came with the cd (what ndiswrapper recommended) and ndiswrapper. Definitely very difficult, now I have to figure how to fix my swap drive, which is not working

[-Demosthenes-]

I figured it out, fixed the network (mostly) and the swap drive. You officially have a new convert to linux.

[Klaynos]

*cheer* welcome to the enlightened

[bluesmudge]

Oh dear been away for a while else i'd have stuck my ore in a long time ago -

 

# XP in my Experience will run on no lower that 400 MHz . . .

#Laptops are genrally slower anyway becuase of the lower RPM of the HDD to keep power consumption (takes 5 amps (don't quote me on that) to start the average HDD spinning)

# NEVER run XP without full updates and 3 diffrent Spyware Programs - if the spyware protection slows you down don't run XP

# SuSe Can be funny about what it'll run on

# . . . . so will ubuntu

#wireless on that machine!? are you crazy?

[-Demosthenes-]

#wireless on that machine!? are you crazy?

 

Short answer: Yes.

 

It actually works very well with Vector Linux, not super fast, but very usable.

[-Demosthenes-]

I've switched to xubuntu, a project to get ubuntu to work well on low memory computers. I would definitely suggest ubuntu if you're new at Linux. The wiki site is amazing, and there are more people on the ubuntu forum then there are in my city 5 times over. It's pretty easy to do a server install and install fluxbox, icewm, or Xfce, or just use Xubuntu which uses Xfce (or the whole install if you have the resources on your computer ). Thanks for all the help guys.