Linux Recommendation, Anyone?
Written by WishBoNe on May 16, 2007 – 9:50 amI’m thinking of formating an old laptop into Linux because it’s running on Windows 2000 with 64MB of RAM. The processor is AMD Athlon (I think). It’s running way too slow and I’d like to enable it to run faster with an OS that’s less taxing on the available resources.
I haven’t find out if I an get it to connect to the Internet, may need to buy PCMIA wireless card if it can be formatted. The HDD is partitioned into 3 partitions with 6GB each. I don’t remember why as it wasn’t done by me. Have done a bit of research on the various Linux versions available. I found Ubuntu but it requires 128MB of RAM which I doubt I’m able to buy addition since this laptop is more than 8 (?) years old.
Another version I just found is Puppy Linux which seems to be suitable for the specifications that I have. I like to know if there is any more versions that I can consider besides Puppy Linux. Found a site with users’ experience with VMware. Looks like more research needs to be done.
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June 14th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
your notebook is oldddddddddddddddddddd. u will not be able to run ubuntu or fc6 or any major distro that runs KDE or GNOME for your user interface. Needs around 256MB RAM to run smooth.
If you are a Linux advanced user - try running Fluxbox.
If you are a newbie - try out XFCE. quite nice.
You may/may not have better luck with Xubuntu.
Cheers.
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June 14th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
Thanks for your recommendation.
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