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On 19 October 2011 15:56, Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Philip Hudson wrote: > >> On 19 Oct, 2011, at 3:16 pm, Stephen Cutts wrote: >> >>> I'll try to keep this short and sweet, for reasons I won't go into I >>> aquired what I believe to be a nine year old laptop if not slightly >>> older, it's specs are: >>> a 20gb HDD >>> 639mb of what I assume is DDR ram >>> and an unspecified Atholon XP mobile processor. >>> >>> Now my question to the great minds of the LUG is simple, after the >>> lubuntu install for this laptop failed/crashed several times, can >>> anyone think of a linux distro that would run on it? >> >> The usual suspects: Damn Small Linux, Tiny Core Linux, Puppy Linux. > > Why "small" ? > > My 4-5 year old Acer has a similar spec to that (1.8GHz Athlon, 512MB RAM, > 20GB drive) and it's running Debian (Lenny) just fine with xfce4 as the > window manager. > > Gordon > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq > Well in this case I think the processor is quite a bit weaker than 1.8ghz, I'm honestly thinking it's sub 1ghz going by how it runs most of the time. So can I get a quick summary of the pros and cons for those three distros? -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq