[vox-tech] Need some help choosing a linux flavor for an old laptop

[Kyle Oliveira]

> On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 07:37:14PM -0700, Seth Nagao wrote:
> > My roommate had a similar situation, and we found that Fedora and
> > Ubuntu are paintfully slow.  The solution we came up with was Vector
> > Linux, which is targeted towards older hardware.
> 
> What was it about Fedora and Ubuntu that was 'slow,' compared to Vector?
> e.g., what were they doing different?  Or could you tell?
> 

Were you running these as LiveCD's or installed on the system? For my
particular situation I'm planning on installing to the harddrive... I just
wish my home internet connection was faster so I could get the blasted
iso's downloaded...

Kyle Oliveira