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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 machineOS: Windows XP Pro, SP2CPU/Ram: 2.93Ghz Celeron/768MBModel/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
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Name: 3Dave
Date: April 13, 2006 at 03:34:19 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)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
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Name: Chxta
Date: April 14, 2006 at 08:31:45 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)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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