Good Distro For a Laptop?

[Nekopa]

Who has had what successes with what distros on laptops?

I have an old Toshiba 305CD and I am thinking about scratching Win95 off it and making it Linux only. Its only a P166 w 16MB Ram and a 2.1GB HDD.

Should I go for an older distro, or one of the newer ones? On my main machine I have tried RedHat7.0, Mandrake7.0, Debian and I am currently running :cool: Slackware :cool: (Except I still can't get my printer working :mad: )

Also, would one of the BSDs work? I was thinking about putting that on the main machine for a laugh, but maybe I could throw it on the laptop....

Any thoughts or links will be appreciated

Lee

[bdg1983]

How about looking up your laptop model at http://www.linux-laptop.net/ to see if it's listed and what others have had success installing certain distros and versions.

[Nekopa]

Oh well...
My laptop wasn't listed there, but google found one site in which someone had set-up BSD on my laptop, so I might give BSD a try.

Will anything that I have learned in Linux be applicable to BSD, or will I be learning from scratch again?

Lee

[Dave Anderson]

Slackware - ran great on my Thinkpad. You need something lean for a laptop like that - go with Slackware.