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On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:21:24 +0100 Steven Coté wrote: > > > > Which distro is suitable for this old laptop running at > > 500Mhz and with 256MB RAM? It has been running Kubuntu 6.06 > > so perhaps a later version might suit. > > > > I was running fedora 6 on a PII 400 with 256 ram about a year ago. As > long as you switch the desktop out for something lightweight like > XFCE or even no desktop at all like fluxbox or flwm or something like > that. > > Just grabbing an XFCE distro (like http://www.xubuntu.org/) is the > easiest thing to do. I ran various distros on a PII-333MHz with 192Mb RAM for a long time. Always swapped out the desktop for Sawfish - indeed I still have it now on my 2GHz+ machines and I still reckon it's one of the best lightweight window managers around. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html