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Re: [LUG] Help Please - Small Distro Wanted

 

David Bell wrote:
> I'm looking for a small distro (e-mail, browse, edit - sort of thing) to
> install on an old'ish Acer laptop. Puppylinux installed easily and fits
> the spec, but operating as root seems a bit dodgy. DSL seemed to install
> happily to the hdd, but wouldn't boot.
>
> Currently Xubuntu is installed but it is rather slow compared
> with several other small Slackware based live distros I've tried, all of
> which failed to install for various reasons.
>
> Any suggestions welcome.
>
>   
Hi David,

You mentioned 'various reasons'.. what kind of problems are you running 
into? Particular hardware issues?  This might help people with 
recommendations.

Kind regards,

Julian

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