We mostly use debian linux at the monkey house, but some ubuntu for an Pentium 2 (very old) and a remix based on ubuntu (this will become debian though) on a rather nice netbook.
Since the netbook is moving from ubuntu that only left the pentiom 2 pc to upgrade.
Being that this machine is very old it did take 12 twelve hours (on a slow net connection doing too much other stuff) but you could not run windows 7 on it (windows nt, or windows 98 was what the maker supplied it with ten years plus ago.) Before i resort to some low power distro like damm small linux it still makes a good x host and is ok for spreadsheets and basic tasks.
I’d go use latest debian on it except the sound card isnt supported and to get that back into the kernel requires some plain damm strange magic linux backport stuff that never works when i do it (early etch worked fine)
So the machine does struggle a bit with 9.04, and things do take a bit of time on this old machine but it still has a use in it still with a rather good flat screen display.
Testing of 9.10 indicated most things working except than the x test card test, I had to re-enable the switches on cups to get remote printers to be seen and printed too. That took a minute to fi
The only mickey mouse feature in 9.10 is no gdm screen (on first look) anyhow quite sure i can live with that for a while until i fix that.
So when people say it karmic koala sucks it does not – try running windows 7 on a Pentium 2, it was pretty awful with windows xp and how long ago did xp come out ?
One happy koala user here.
I mean whats the fuss about ? Im happy with it. Humans sigh
