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On Friday 19 September 2008 20:15, 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. In extremis you could try this http://picogui.org/ It used to fit into 64K ram. Thats when computers were allowed to do work and the interface was more of an amusement. Tom te tom te tom -- 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