While the purpose of this home laptop is just to do a little surfing with the Internet browser, reading e-mail, some light word processing, and secure shelling into my personal servers.Linux has brought new life into the Averatec. During the past two weeks, using Linux on this laptop has been pure joy. The laptop could barely be considered "up to date" with regards to hardware, although its exterior is designed well and doesn't look dated like other laptops of the same age.īefore I discuss my troubles with installing Linux on this laptop, let me first talk about the positives. This particular laptop includes an AMD Athlon XP-M 2000+ processor, 512 MB RAM (upgraded from the original 256 MB), a 12.1 inch screen, and both Ethernet and wireless networking capabilities. Even Google had a tough time helping me find "best practices" for installing Linux on this particular laptop model. The laptop is from a company that almost no one knows so support was limited.
This old Averatec 3220 had a lot of negatives going its way for installing Linux. The laptop is the Averatec 3220 and over time I've found it just too sluggish for running Windows XP. This old laptop isn't just any laptop but one of the first sub-$1000 laptops that hit the United States market.
In the end, I chose to install Linux on a three year old laptop. A few weeks ago, I seriously thought about buying either Apple's latest MacBook or a Windows laptop where I could dual boot between the laptops native operating systems and Linux.