I have a Pentium III 1 GHz (?) laptop with 512 MB (?) RAM and a 80 GB (?) hard drive, 1024x768 display. Which distro would run half-decently on this, with GUI/desktop?
On 13-01-29 08:51 PM, Kevin McGregor wrote:
I have a Pentium III 1 GHz (?) laptop with 512 MB (?) RAM and a 80 GB (?) hard drive, 1024x768 display. Which distro would run half-decently on this, with GUI/desktop?
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There are two I would think should do the trick and still maintain a GUI desktop with reasonably fast speed. Mint 10 and Peppermint 3. I tried Peppermint in a VM and it looked like it was running faster than the host OS.
Later Mike
On 13-01-29 08:51 PM, Kevin McGregor wrote:
I have a Pentium III 1 GHz (?) laptop with 512 MB (?) RAM and a 80 GB (?) hard drive, 1024x768 display. Which distro would run half-decently on this, with GUI/desktop?
Another small distro that I've used in the past is Puppy Linux, http://www.puppylinux.com/.
It's designed to run from a CD, USB drive or from a hard drive, and copies the whole shebang into a RAM disk. No worries though, it runs on systems smaller than 512MB RAM. You can get it to save changes when it shuts down (e.g. on multisession CDs), so it's not strictly read-only either. For a while, I had it running as my firewall on an old PC.
Cheers, Tim
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