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.. I was a Unix Sys-Adm 30+ years ago... meaning I know enough about Linux to be less than useless.. and am too old to become a Guru..
My daring venture here, is part of new hobby (model railroading), and some wonderful software (JMRI)..
I have an old laptop (Gateway using a CoreDuo 1.97mghz), that I'd like to use only to run JMRI. The original O/S (Vista) is corrupt, and rather than try yo recover via the hidden partition; I'd like try Linux.
JMRI requires JAVA and the use of USB interface. Is there a Linux distribution most likely to work well with this laptop, and support JMRI use ? I know there's more to it than that, but I'd like to get pointed in the right direction..
Many thanks in advance,
Bob Boucher
My daring venture here, is part of new hobby (model railroading), and some wonderful software (JMRI)..
I have an old laptop (Gateway using a CoreDuo 1.97mghz), that I'd like to use only to run JMRI. The original O/S (Vista) is corrupt, and rather than try yo recover via the hidden partition; I'd like try Linux.
JMRI requires JAVA and the use of USB interface. Is there a Linux distribution most likely to work well with this laptop, and support JMRI use ? I know there's more to it than that, but I'd like to get pointed in the right direction..
Many thanks in advance,
Bob Boucher