Ubuntu for a newbie?

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Jimmypoo wrote:
I've got a Gateway P3/667 laptop that I could run it on... but like all gateway garbage, the plastic
was so thin, that the heat generated from the CPU and the battery made it flake off the laptop
like a thin layer of ice on a piece of glass.

Now you have to hold its guts in when you pick it up.

I figure an underpowered piece of junk like that would be a good candidate to run Ubuntu on. Assuming
I take it out of the box it is in, and make a coffin-case to hold the parts.

Scotch tape?
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