Guest redbay Posted November 20, 2005 Report Share Posted November 20, 2005 Hello, I am new to linux, and I was thinking of trying mandriva on a laptop with dual booting with xp. The machine is a dell p3 500, 256mb ram and a 70 gig hd. I have tried in the past to load ubuntu onto an amd 350 and that failed part way through the install. So will mandriva work on my laptop? I was thinking of getting it from http://frontal2.mandriva.com/ Any comments? I did try a download from a mirror but I couldnt find the english version in the download. Thanks, Nick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted November 20, 2005 Report Share Posted November 20, 2005 Hello, and welcome aboard! I installed Mandriva 2006 yesterday on my PII 350 tower-PC, and it is running Gnome very smoothly, compared to previous versions. As far as I'm concerned, it is the best Mandriva version I have ever used! Some report problems with some graphic cards, mostly ATI and NVidia. My ATI rage fury 128 is working fine, though... Anyway, you can still use the VESA driver if you have problems with the specialized one, but then it won't be accelerated for games. I am very satisfied with this release. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexx Posted November 20, 2005 Report Share Posted November 20, 2005 I'm running Mandriva 2006 on a P133 with 48MB RAM and 4GB HD. :) I'm using it in text mode though. :) My main machine, a P4 3Ghz, is waiting for my schedule to clear before I upgrade it to 2006. :) So your PIII 500 w/256MB RAM should be able to run things just fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted November 20, 2005 Report Share Posted November 20, 2005 It should work. I found that the only tricky thing with laptops is the graphics and I experienced problems with lots of distros in this regard, but never with Mandriva. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest redbay Posted November 20, 2005 Report Share Posted November 20, 2005 Thanks guys, very helpful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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