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I'll probably try all of them as well as Fedora. Thanks.
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I have an older laptop - Dell Latitude D510 - that works perfectly fine for my use. Some simple coding, email (using Evolution) browsing and writing. I have been using Ubuntu as the OS for the past four years but the latest versions - especialy 10.10 aren't playing too nicely with the hardware. I suspect it is a matter of Ubuntu moving along to support newer hardware. So, any suggestions for a good Liux distro for this laptop? Thanks. (I realize this is very subjective!)
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I have an older laptop - Dell Latitude D510 - that works perfectly fine for my use. Some simple coding, email (using Evolution) browsing and writing. I have been using Ubuntu as the OS for the past four years but the latest versions - especialy 10.10 aren't playing too nicely with the hardware. I suspect it is a matter of Ubuntu moving along to support newer hardware. So, any suggestions for a good Liux distro for this laptop? Thanks. (I realize this is very subjective!)

I&#39;ll probably try all of them as well as Fedora. Thanks.

Suggested Linux Distro for Older Laptop

I have an older laptop - Dell Latitude D510 - that works perfectly fine for my use. Some simple coding, email (using Evolution) browsing and writing. I have been using Ubuntu as the OS for the past four years but the latest versions - especialy 10.10 aren&#39;t playing too nicely with the hardware. I suspect it is a matter of Ubuntu moving along to support newer hardware. So, any suggestions for a good Liux distro for this laptop? Thanks. (I realize this is very subjective!)

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