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RE: My Dad gave me a oldschool laptop what should i do
exactly my thought
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RE: My Dad gave me a oldschool laptop what should i do
Well it has a 3.5" floppy disk drive, so that is how stuff was installed on it.  I've had to install Windows 3.1 a few times on a really old laptop I have.  In fact I have a bunch of old OS' on on floppies around my house, Windows 98 is the "newest" one and I think the last one released by MS on floppies, since it takes up a whole crapload of disks.
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RE: My Dad gave me a oldschool laptop what should i do
regular ubuntu will probably run slow on that poc....try using http://www.xubuntu.org/ it should have just as simple of an install interface as ubuntu, but just be lighter. Heck, you may even be able to play some video on that machine with xubuntu...
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RE: My Dad gave me a oldschool laptop what should i do
ok i will try dat thanks
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Peacefully Disturbed Wrote:Well it has a 3.5" floppy disk drive, so that is how stuff was installed on it.  I've had to install Windows 3.1 a few times on a really old laptop I have.  In fact I have a bunch of old OS' on on floppies around my house, Windows 98 is the "newest" one and I think the last one released by MS on floppies, since it takes up a whole crapload of disks.

but this os is MS ME so how could it be installed by floppy
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will wine run on xubuntu
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amzter Wrote:will wine run on xubuntu

If u really want Linux just to use wine, then i suggest just install something like win 98.

Use Linux for Linux. If u want to use Linux for Windows, just use Windows instead.
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RE: My Dad gave me a oldschool laptop what should i do
no i want linux because it would run nicely
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RE: My Dad gave me a oldschool laptop what should i do
kk

i don't know about ubuntu, i mean the machine is rather weak... but then again, i don't know much about linux

Win98 would probably run nicely though.
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give it to me  lol
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RE: My Dad gave me a oldschool laptop what should i do
I still think you should fashion a hat out of it.
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Turn it into a brilliantly secure gateway/webserver/VPN by sticking Smoothwall on it, or hang it on the wall at a angle and call it modern art.
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