[olug] Compaq Presario 5080US

[Paul & Debbie Lewis]

Everyone,
    Thanks for the sage advice on this!  I don't have Ubuntu.  I do have the
Knoppix disks around.  I've got two things I want to try with this machine
so tell me which of the two would work best:  I have weather models written
in Fortran77 that I'd like to get running in the long term and in the short
term I'd also like to "Burn" my LPs to CD.  I'm planning on using Audacity
for the second.  The computer is capable of going to 512 mb, so in the long
term I'll probably do that, but do I only need 256 to get Gnome and/or KDE
running?
     I agree that this machine doesn't run so well with Windoze.  Currently
has ME on it and I can only keep it running for a few minutes before some
software locks it up.  I'm tired of fight to keep older PC running on MS, so
it's time to experiment.  I'll be pulling the modem, I'm running a wired
network so don't need the winmodem.  Should I have the PC connected to the
network when building the new OS?

Thanks in Advance!
Paul



-----Original Message-----
From: Paul & Debbie Lewis [mailto:phldml3 at cox.net] 
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 6:37 PM
To: olug at olug.org
Subject: [olug] Compaq Presario 5080US

Help anyone,

    I got a Compaq Presario 5080US from my sister-in-law and am wondering
how hard would it be to make it into a Linux box?  I know that Compaq uses a
lot of goofy drivers just to make Windows work nicely with the CD drives and
other things.  Has anyone experienced problems with Linux on one of these
boxes?

 

Thanks in advance,

Paul