[wellylug] Distro for Thinkpad T21?

[Daniel Pittman]

Steve Macdonald <dakmani1 at yahoo.co.nz> writes:

> Hi, just wondering if anyone could recommend a user friendly distro
> for an old thinkpad T21 1200Mhz processor 256Mb of ram.

Are you sure that is a T21 with a 1200MHz processor?  That line shipped
with 750 to 850MHz P3 processors only, as far as I can tell...

Anyway, more or less any current distribution should run fairly
comfortably on it, provided you have binary packages.[1]

You shouldn't have huge trouble running either GNOME or KDE on that
platform, and even Firefox, Thunderbird or OpenOffice should be vaguely
tolerable.


Dropping another 256MB of memory into it would be nice, but not
essential.


Was there some particular reason you were concerned about the
distribution you put on it?

Regards,
        Daniel

Footnotes: 
[1]  Gentoo, *BSD and other platforms that build from source will
     require patience when it comes to upgrades, but should also work.