Linux Media player laptop
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:34:21 -0700, chris.kernaghan
A debian-based system would probably be your best bet. For ease of installation, hardware setup and configuration you will probably want to use the installer from a LiveCD.
One of the tiny LiveCD distros like Damn Small Linux (DSL), Feather, Berry, Beatrix or Morphix would probably do. Since all of these are debian-based, you can use the excellent apt package management system to easily install and remove software. DSL has a very nice utility to facilitate this even more.
While the CPU is a bit on the low side, the amount of RAM you have should help alot for playing various media, so long as you use a barebones media player like mplayer in console mode.
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Hopefully, that unit has support for xvideo extensions for it's graphics chipset, which will improve media playback even more. If not, you can still get decent output by using framebuffer or vesa. On a system with those specs, while x11-xshm will work, it probably won't be the best you could get.
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