[TriLUG] Linux version recommendations for OLD laptop...

[Carl Crider]

I was able to help a friend get a similar piece of hardware running smoothly
by installing Debian from the ground up. He's fairly new to Linux and had no
issues using the link provided.

Install only what you need, of course.

(Not too fond of the title of this how-to, but it does work)

http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-debian-lenny

Good luck, have fun.

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:11 AM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> On Monday 19 July 2010 01:22:32 Dave Cowan wrote:
>> Hey Luggers,
>>
>> I have an old Dell Latitude CPt S (yeaah, I know,  don't laugh). It has an
>>  500 MHz Intel Celeron processor with 256 MB of  ram. I was able to
>>  successfully install Windows XP SP3 but I'd like to  try a version of
>>  Linux on it.
>>
>> I want to load Linux on it just to play around but have had issues  with
>>  Ubuntu 9.04 and 10.04. Any recommendations on a fairly recent
>>  distribution of Linux that I might be able to successfully load on this
>>  dinosaur? Doesn't necessarily need to be Ubuntu.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dave
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> Depends on what you want to do with it. The DSL and Peanut distributions,
> among many others, are meant for underpowered machines and I'm sure they'd
> install just fine. My perception is I can't get much work done with those
> distros, but your mileage may vary.
>
> You could also try Xubuntu, which is Ubuntu sporting a light footprint xfce
> window manager. I haven't used it, but my guess is it would be a much more
> ready-to-work distro than Peanut or DSL. According to
> http://www.xubuntu.org/getubuntu, it will work with 192MB of RAM, although
> they recommend at least 256MB.
>
> Whatever you install, my guess would be you'd need to be careful to run very
> few apps at a time. You'd probably want to not install Mozilla Firefox or
> konqueror, but instead go for lightweights like dillo or midori.
>
> You might like Umenu as a partial user interface and occasional front end.
> It's a console app that's very lightweight.
>
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/umenu/
>
> Please let us know what you end up doing.
>
> SteveT
>
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