OK.........

Here's the story...

A while back, I tripped across a junker Toshiba Satellite L305.  The price was right, so I snagged it.  It's a decent system, 2 GB RAM, 320 GB hard drive, 2.19 Ghz Pentium III Xeon/Celeron processor.  Decent for what I wanted.  Physically a little thumped up.  (A bit more ominously, I discovered that it won't go into the BIOS.  You can only get into the Boot menu...)

My intention was to install a version of Majaro on it, and just use it as a sort of lab rat computer.  Which I did.  Installed Manjaro with OpenBox.  And I liked it, alot.  A very solid system.  Fast, fairly light, and pretty easy to use.

However, I found myself not using it that much.  I tended to grab one of the Thinkpads, usually with a Puppy thumb drive...

Then, along came the Sony Vaio (the backstory of which everyone is painfully aware).  I've been lost on that for the last several days, fooling with an actual install of Precise Puppy.  So...

Well, it's kind of a rainy day here, and so I've got a good bit of inside time on my hands.  And I started thinking...

Oh, why not?

I pulled out the Toshiba and the Linux Lite 1.0.6 disk, wondering if Lite would recognize/properly map the keyboard on this system...

As you can guess, it did.  Linux Lite runs fine on the L305.  So, in one of those impulse things, I hit "Install", and...

I think the Manjaro report will be put off for a while.  So far, I think LL is going to actually do a good job on this system.

I'll do some customizing work on the system, get it to where I like it.  I might use this one as my main system for a while, with the Vaio assuming it's place as a tote-about subsidiary (stepping into the roll the X60s has been admirably filling).  We shall see how that works.

So far, so good.

OK, here we go.......