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What would run best on this machine

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Name: Comp01
Date: April 13, 2006 at 03:25:00 Pacific
Subject: What would run best on this machine
OS: Windows XP Pro, SP2
CPU/Ram: 2.93Ghz Celeron/768MB
Model/Manufacturer: Me.
Comment:

I have a little 650Mhz/128MB/4.3GB machine laying around that I'd like to do something with (Doesn't have an OS on it, originally had Win98SE, wiped the disk and never reinstalled an OS) any distro of linux thats fairly easy to install and use that'll run on it? (Mostly just to mess around with, nothing serious or mission critical)


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Response Number 1
Name: 3Dave
Date: April 13, 2006 at 03:34:19 Pacific
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Have you got any more RAM you can pop into
it as it would help....even if you just bump
it up to 256Mb? If so you should be able to
use any distro with that hardware. If you do
find things starting to slow up then try
steering clear of KDE and Gnome desktops and
go for a lightweight window manager like
Xfce.


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Response Number 2
Name: Chxta
Date: April 14, 2006 at 08:31:45 Pacific
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I would recommend Ubuntu. Had a 363 MHz/128 MB system that ran Ubuntu very well. Like 3Dave said, your Window manager also matters. Download and install XFCE.


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Response Number 3
Name: Johnw
Date: April 17, 2006 at 22:53:47 Pacific
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A good starting point is Puppy because of it's download size.
http://www.puppyos.com/
http://www.puppyos.com/download/downpage.htm
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/PuppyLinuxMainPage
If you ever want Puppy installed on the hard drive & not running from the CD.
Boot Puppy via the CD ( bios has to be set to boot from cd 1st ) then on the Desktop > Drives > Setup > Install Puppy hard drive & follow the prompts.
When done, change the bios back to where it was.


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