I'm sorry about your situation. It really sucks. I'm having a similar problem myself... I'm broke, and getting to school is a bit of a strain, since it's 45 miles away. People also don't want to hire me, because I'm "over qualified." What is wrong with companies today? They really don't want someone that can do more than what they expect? I really don't understand it. I hope things improve for you. Try to not let it get to you. It's gotta have a pay off at the end. As Ness' mom would say, "Keep on truckin'!"
Thanks. =D I'm glad you got that.
I so wish I could give you some rep, for your question in Rocky's thread XD Kung Pow: Enter The Fist = Best comedy EVER.
I've considered Damn Small Linux for similar systems. I think most widely supported distros would run on your system, as older hardware support seems more likely. Your biggest issue is going to be hard drive space. I've actually been contemplating a similar project. I have a few older, low end systems sitting around that are begging to be messed with. I'm gonna try DSL first. I'm also going to be looking into similar distros. I'll let you know what I come up with. EDIT: You could always try Gentoo or Arch, but that requires a lot of work. You need to be unhealthily obsessed with your OS to work them. Fun challenge, though. You could definitely customize it to fit your system. I'd just be worried about compile times for things you can't find binaries for. I don't know a whole lot about Arch, except that it's supposedly an offshoot of Gentoo. It might include far less compile time. Either way, the simplicity of its base, Gentoo, makes it well worth considering. I hope this helps. =/ EDIT 2, Electric Boogaloo: Linux.com :: Linux distros for older hardware Minimal Linux distros - OLPC
hmm, I'm hunting for a Linux distro, for my 9 year old lappy 500 MHz Processor, 256 MB RAM 4MB Video Card 10Gig Hard drive I've tried puppy linux, but that was just a huge pain in the arse, with the whole booting from CD thing. I don't mind doing some basic work to get some speed out of the OS, but I'm by no means an advanced programmer...not even a beginner really. I'm considering going back to Ubuntu, but at the same time I'd like to try something different. Any ideas?
Screenshot Tour: First Look at Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex" Beta More Ubuntu links for you.
Tux Training Blog Archive How to make Ubuntu extremely fast I thought this could be of interest to you. Take it with a grain of salt, though.
