The 8 years old notebook (Vaio R505TLK) desperately needed some system refresh. The original Windows 2000 was more or less fine but up to date it become cluttered and quite unstable. I do have some sentimental feelings for the thing as it was working for me for quite a long time and helped to learn and achieve a lot. Now it is mostly a backup notebook for sudden guests without computers on them.

After a bit of research and pre/re/over/install parties with some other Linux distributions I stopped with #!CrunchBang Linux. A nicely put together slimmed down xubuntu version with OpenBox as window manager. It's quite a minimalist eye-candy for me as a designer, and most importantly it has great, very active community. And well... it works quite fast on Celeron 650 with 192RAM.