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Old Laptop: Which Linux to Use?

maximumzeromaximumzero I...wait, what?New Orleans, LARegistered User regular
edited August 2007 in Games and Technology
My father brought me home an old Compaq laptop that they were going to throw out. Turns out it's like a 350mhz AMD-based unit with a 4 gig HDD and about 160MB of ram.

I was going to put a flavor of Linux on it just to dick around with. Any reccomendation on which I should use?

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  • RaereRaere Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Possibly Xubuntu (Ubuntu with a less resource-intensive gui). I don't know how it would run on something like that.

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  • taliosfalcontaliosfalcon Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Xubuntu should run fine on that..i think its requirments are 1.4 gigs of disk space and 128 megs of ram

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  • rayofashrayofash Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    ArchLinux. Though if you know nothing of linux you're going to have a very hard time with it.

    Try Puppy or Mepis.

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  • Zilla360Zilla360 21st Century. |She/Her| Trans* Woman In Aviators Firing A Bazooka. ⚛️Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Feather Linux (as the name suggests) is also great for making ancient hardware useful again.

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  • ruforufo Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I put Xubuntu on a 600Mhz Pentium 3 laptop with 128MB of RAM, and the lack of RAM sort of strains it. Xubuntu also sort of has a half-bastard feeling to it, with some things not working as well as in regular Ubuntu.

    With 160MB, it might be worth a shot, but some of the lighter distros might be worth looking into.

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  • wunderbarwunderbar What Have I Done? Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Xubuntu.

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  • FremFrem Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I've got a laptop like that downstairs running Debian Sarge, IceWM, and Opera. Makes a great netbox.

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