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On 19/10/11 17:03, Gordon Henderson wrote:
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Stephen Cutts wrote:On 19 October 2011 15:56, Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Philip Hudson wrote:On 19 Oct, 2011, at 3:16 pm, Stephen Cutts wrote:I'll try to keep this short and sweet, for reasons I won't go into I aquired what I believe to be a nine year old laptop if not slightly older, it's specs are: a 20gb HDD 639mb of what I assume is DDR ram and an unspecified Atholon XP mobile processor. Now my question to the great minds of the LUG is simple, after the lubuntu install for this laptop failed/crashed several times, can anyone think of a linux distro that would run on it?The usual suspects: Damn Small Linux, Tiny Core Linux, Puppy Linux.Why "small" ? My 4-5 year old Acer has a similar spec to that (1.8GHz Athlon, 512MB RAM, 20GB drive) and it's running Debian (Lenny) just fine with xfce4 as the window manager. GordonWell in this case I think the processor is quite a bit weaker than 1.8ghz, I'm honestly thinking it's sub 1ghz going by how it runs most of the time. So can I get a quick summary of the pros and cons for those three distros?Debian - because it works for me :) I also have Debian (older versions) on 2 other "mothballed" laptops. The oldest has a P200 in it, and one day I'll grab an image of the drive and throw it in the dustbin.. Gordon
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