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On 04/08/10 19:14, Roland Tarver wrote:
crunchbang is good, ignore the disclaimer. Based on debian now, and the openbox version is what I am using at the moment, or there is an xfce one.On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 6:54 PM,<alexfido@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:hi to all,i have aquired an old laptop dell latitude,450mhz cpu,6gb hard drive 256 ram,can any one suggest a distro that will run on this. but please remember its got to be fairly idiot proof to in stall. cheers alex the (upancoming idiot) noobHi Alex :-) I'm pretty new too; but have read about several distro's for older hardware. I added 2 articles to the "useful links" page of the dcglug site (in the older hardware section), they may be of use:- http://www.dcglug.org.uk/node/95 There are lots of distros for older hardware it would seem. Puppy linux might be a good place to start. It runs in ram and is really quick. http://puppylinux.org/main/index.php?file=Overview%20and%20Getting%20Started.htm Other options:- Vector Linux. DSL - Dam small linux is often mentioned but does not seem to always get great write ups. Slitaz linux has a very small 30MB install CD. A customised version of Debian perhaps? (i dont know enough about this. Probably more difficult to install?) Why not have a look on distrowatch.org for any more lite-weight distros? Although I have done a _little_ reading about "lite-weight" distro's I have not had time to install many on my old hardware. Others will have greater experience and be able to provide better guidance. I would have thought Puppy linux would be a reasonable place to start. It is available as a live CD so that you can simply try it out. It seems fairly easy :-) and I believe is now based on ubuntu 10.04. I hope this helps? I would be interested to know how you get on? If you find any good articles perhaps you could add them to the useful links page? Best wishes roly-- The Mailing List for the Devon& Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq
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