Re: Linux on Satellite M70-181 - recommendations?
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as Windows XP support will end next April and my old Satellite still works
I wonder if anyone has any experience with Linus on this type of laptop.
Are there recommendations regarding verson (Ubuntu, SUSE, Debian,...).
Are there drivers available? (impossible to find anything on the Toshiba site).
Thank you
Hello
This question should probably be divided into 2 sections.
(1) stability and security.
It's always a good idea to stick to a branch that is stable and continue to release updates for the given distribution.
Look at Debian or RedHat (CentOS is a free 'clone' of RedHat).
Debian and RedHat (CentOS) support their distributions of life or a long time (RedHat) or via a rolling update mechanism (Debian) release.
(2) performance
Having a unit of the old school as the M70 really forces you to look at what desktop environment you should look.
You must avoid KDE4, Gnome3, cinnamon and Unity (specific to Ubuntu). They all look nice and have fancy features but will be (too) heavy load for your old unit to carry.
Search for rather Mate, LXDE, office environments focused on XFCE for a balanced experience.
If you want to go for a very lean office there are a number of choices such as Openbox and other similar environments.
So to sum up - the choice of the distribution is not very easy because it is a decision (at least) 2-step.
Security/stabilty and choice of desktop environment where the last of them will have the most impact on the memory footprint and processor.
Here's a place to start looking for your desktop of choice:
http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment
This is a very good site for verification of distributions:
http://Distrowatch.com/
Tom BR
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