Let's boil it down. Linux Mint 13, with Mate, works. Quite well, in fact. I rather like it. (I did download the Cinnamon version, but didn't burn it to disk.)
That's the success.
Boiling, as my temper is... Puppy Linux did not work. I downloaded and burned Puppy Linux 5.4.3, "Precise Puppy". After doing a live boot with Mint, I decided to do a quick test of Puppy...
And was informed that my CPU couldn't handle this, as it required PAE...
So, the little tiny, simple, stripped down, "runs on anything" Linux can't run on a system that is only about 9 years old. Great.
The big version of Linux that requires a DVD to burn to, which has the fairly heavy user interface, which comes loaded with advanced software, etc., will run on the computer that's 9 years old with its sad ol' CPU.
Ok... Help me here...
Anyway... I haven't installed Mint yet. Just kind of got out of the mood. I'll probably do it tomorrow. Maybe after I send back the incorrect T61 battery...
And, yeah, I know. At least Mint worked...
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