m.nuttall@??? wrote:
>
> I had thought of the later version however the thinkpad has 512meg memory and
> 8meg of that is shared for gfx. I would rather have something thats reasonably
> fast hence the age of the distribution.
512MB would be plenty for Mandriva, but I'd suggest taking a look at
PCLiunxOS 2008 Mini-Me. It's KDE based, uses the Mandriva control
center, has excellent hardware support and has minimal software
installed so you can choose exactly what you want.
Torrent here:
http://btjunkie.org/torrent/pclinuxos-minime-2008/50276487d2dfae54efa4f96749cee8cbd7a3ba1c934c
James