Ubuntu 9.04 was working gr8 and I had all my hardware detected including my wireless until I found out that my dvd-rom drive wasn't working even with the latest updates:-( I just formatted the drive and installed Windows XP instead which is ok. I am not really that experienced in linux to go...
After a bit of trial and error, I've gone with xubuntu 9.04 for now ... it seems to be reasonably fast on my machine.The booting takes some time but after booting it is fairly responsive. I did try slitaz but I got a few errors in mplayer , so I left it.Thanks for the help guys :)
Hi, I have an old acer laptop which has a 1.7 celeron processor with 512 mb of ram .It is really slow and I want to install a linux distribution for listening to songs and watching movies mainly.I would also be doing some programming. Support for all common formats(divx/xvid/rmvb) is...
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