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So a while back (more like 2000) I had bought this laptop made by Twinhead (WTH? Twinhead?) running an old Pentium 3 with a 10 Gig HD (o.0) and a 120MB of ram. Back then it was a pretty good computer. Well at least until I realized that the OS it came with (Windows ME) is a piece of crap. It crashed so often. Although the viruses didn’t help much. I think it had over 20+ virus on it (Thanks Microsoft!), even though I installed Norton (which was hell to uninstall), Mcafee, and a bunch of other virus/Spyware Scanner. Finally after getting tired of the crashing Windows ME, I decided to try and install Windows XP. A very BAD idea. Although it did crash less, and had no spyware/virus, it was damn slow. I think it took about 5 minutes to boot up. Even after cleaning up the list of startup programs. It was a pain to use. After I got a brand new Dell, I think I never touched it again.

So after gathering dust for many years, I felt adventurous and decided to try and install linux on it as a “test bed”. At first I tried this Small linux distro (Fox Linux), which was very slick looking, but had absolutly no english community to help me with it. Soon I decided to give up on it. It was even worse because I was a linux “Noob” back then. From then on I realized that a good community is what determines how a good distro is. So I decided to try again and find another good distro. I decided to use Damn Small Linux this time. I liked it because it was very light and had no trouble residing in an old computer system. It was a smooth and a rather fast install on the old computer. I was very happy with it. Well at least until I realized that the helping community that it had isn’t the best. (more…)

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