Not only did I get Gnome Zen Mini installed on a 9 year old laptop..

[Dragynn]

I actually swapped in some parts to get the old dog working right, one of which is an Atheros wireless card from a newer laptop, did NOT expect it to work without major fiddling....

Unplugged my ethernet and started walking over to the neighbors to test (I use a wired router, no wireless at my house), clicked on the network icon in the tray, and not only did it know EXACTLY what card I had, it had already installed it as wlan0 and was looking for a signal! wow man, that is a first, no joke, and it found it too once I got close enough, and connected with no problems.

crap, Just19 is gonna give me the "fanboy" taunt again, but I just had to post this, this is an old Gateway Solo 5350 we are talking about, Pentium 3 and sloooooow sdram and notoriously finicky/crappy Intel graphics.

Really nice work Siamer, Tex and Slick50!

[Was_Just19]

        I am watching you!   

[uncleV]

Let me disillusion you, Zen-fanboy!

This should work the same way with any other PCLOS version (even KDE ha ha ha) because it comes from the kernel.

[sixthwheel]

I actually swapped in some parts to get the old dog working right, one of which is an Atheros wireless card from a newer laptop, did NOT expect it to work without major fiddling....

Unplugged my ethernet and started walking over to the neighbors to test (I use a wired router, no wireless at my house), clicked on the network icon in the tray, and not only did it know EXACTLY what card I had, it had already installed it as wlan0 and was looking for a signal! wow man, that is a first, no joke, and it found it too once I got close enough, and connected with no problems.

crap, Just19 is gonna give me the "fanboy" taunt again, but I just had to post this, this is an old Gateway Solo 5350 we are talking about, Pentium 3 and sloooooow sdram and notoriously finicky/crappy Intel graphics.

Really nice work Siamer, Tex and Slick50!

So just what exactly are you saying? That you like Zen-Mini?

[Dragynn]

Let me disillusion you, Zen-fanboy!

This should work the same way with any other PCLOS version (even KDE ha ha ha) because it comes from the kernel.

Hah! sez you Uncle!

And what's more, i'm running Smurfslover's new E17 test iso right now on my main box, and let me tell ya, it's soooooooooooooo much prettier than stinky ol' KDE!

[uncleV]

[MGBguy]

Let me just add to the appreciation of Gnome Zen Mini. Installed a few days ago on an IBM Thinkpad R51; dual boot with Windows XP. This was an $99 ebay purchase with an XP key but no hard drive. Now with a 320 GB HD  and upgraded to 1.2 GB ram.

Zen Mini 2010.10 installed perfectly with wi-fi. I am most impressed! The default graphics/theme are very cool! Installed VLC (win codecs) and Gimp for now. It is so nice to start with such a scaled back OS!

Well done!  

[gseaman]

With all of these desktops and quarterly releases, I am going to have to retire just to have enough time to try them all!

Galen