Back to the Task - With Some Modifications

I've spent a good bit of time every day this past week exploring Linux. I've had at least 6 different distributions running on the laptop and was searching for a distribution which would easily support wireless networking. As I mentioned earlier, I would like to use the home wireless network to upload and modify the slideshows running on the DigimagR. Long Story-short, I finally did get one of the distributions up running wireless, but it was a major chore.

When I originally decided to do this project is was based on my thinking that the Linux OS in general, required much less hardware (cpu, memory, HD.... etc) than MS Windows. I quickly discovered that to not be the case with all of the distributions. Most all of them would push the limits of the existing laptop.

The Thinkpad 600 that I purchased on EBay, came with Windows 2000 Prof installed, and it ran well. I'm also comfortable in Windows and have made the decision to stay with the Win2K install for this project.

I'm not abandoning my interest in Linux, and will come back to it later as a separate project. For now though, I'm going to concentrate on completing this project with the OS I'm most comfortable with. I've downloaded all priority updates from microsoft and the machine is now pretty clean and runs well.

Truth be known, I think I've been looking for excuses to not physically tear into the laptop. There's something daunting about taking a perfectly good laptop and taking it completely apart -- Actually the really daunting thought is putting the necessary parts back together and making it work.

Gotta bite the bullet sooner or later -- for right now, I'm gonna sit back, play a little online poker and give it some serious thought.

Just a little later -- I promise!