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mcwaco
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I haven't used linux and ho an old compaq armada m700 laptop (with pentium II 350 mhz 128 m ram) and was wanting to know what OS I could use with this dinosaur of a computer to see if I like a Linux OS better than windows and to make an old computer a bit more useful.
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DSL (Damn Small Linux) would probably run just fine.
You can also try Archlinux (i686 optimized) and install low resource consuming applications :
- Fluxbox/IceWM/Openbox/whatever for the Window Manager
- Rox as a file manager
- Mpd with a client of your liking for the music...
- Mutt as email client ( or Claws if you prefer X oriented)
- Gqview as "picture program"
- Dillo/Links2 for browsing...
Those are just suggestions, you could use whatever you want!0 -
AntiX, a sister distro of Mepis, is made to work with older computers with limited resources.
http://antix.mepis.com/index.php/Main_Page
Slitaz is also gaining notoriety for older systems,
http://distrowatch.com/index.php?distribution=slitaz&month=March&year=20100 -
I have heard others refer to CDLinux (find it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cd-linux/ ) as a good one for extremely limited-resource machines like yours. I have not used it, but here it is as a suggestion to check out.
Another is Portable Linux, a SliTaz fork, that sounds interesting -- http://portablelinux.sourceforge.net/
Seconding Goineasy9, I have antiX installed on an old PIII with 512MB RAM and hear it runs swell on a PII with 256MB RAM, but this is probably the minimum regarding system requirements. The developer for SaxenOS also used this latter as a description of the minimum system for his distro in a webpage read recently. Both run very well on my PC.
I all you want to do is surf the web and save small files occasionally, the new Lucid Puppy with a USB stick or Slax with its free "Slax Drive" could serve you well running as LiveCDs.
http://www.linux.org has a list of distros, also, that may be helpful.
Best wishes in your endeavor!0
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