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Grant Sewell wrote: > On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:21:24 +0100 > Steven Coté wrote: > > >>> Which distro is suitable for this old laptop running at >>> 500Mhz and with 256MB RAM? It has been running Kubuntu 6.06 >>> so perhaps a later version might suit. >>> >>> >> I was running fedora 6 on a PII 400 with 256 ram about a year ago. As >> long as you switch the desktop out for something lightweight like >> XFCE or even no desktop at all like fluxbox or flwm or something like >> that. >> >> Just grabbing an XFCE distro (like http://www.xubuntu.org/) is the >> easiest thing to do. >> > > I ran various distros on a PII-333MHz with 192Mb RAM for a long time. > Always swapped out the desktop for Sawfish - indeed I still have it > now on my 2GHz+ machines and I still reckon it's one of the best > lightweight window managers around. > > Grant. > > Thanks to all for comments and advice. John -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html