ubuntu

Last year I'd tried the Ubuntu 5.10 Live CD on a low spec machine - PII 350 with 128 MB RAM - and had been less than impressed. On a whim, just tried it on the Acer laptop
( http://hnsws.blogspot.com/2006/05/acer-travelmate-242x-getting-sound-to.html
http://hnsws.blogspot.com/2006/05/linux-on-acer-travelmate-2423nwxci.html
and so on ) and was favourably impressed. Display correctly set to 1280 x 800, and apparently full ACPI support - battery monitor shown on panel. Mandriva did not have any of these.