Which distro do you recommend? For OLD laptop...

arif_moin · 08-08-2007, 01:47 PM

Hey'ya guys. Just picked up an old laptop for free.

It's a Pentium 1
133 mhz
w/ 1.4 gb HD

What are the good, lightweight, relatively user friendly (in terms of hardware detection) distros out there? Thanks in advance...

trickykid · 08-08-2007, 02:34 PM

Any of them will work. Just use a lighter or light weight desktop like fluxbox or XFce, etc.

Valkyrie_of_valhalla · 08-08-2007, 02:47 PM

try slackware or puppy.
Slackware you might have to play around with, it requires quite a lot of space unless you select package by package what you want.
Puppy is quite easy to use and it has only a few MB. The nasty part is it has few packages specifically for it, it's hard to set up user accounts and many usual features are missing.

farslayer · 08-08-2007, 03:59 PM

Puppy
DSL
xubuntu
Debian using the xfce install iso
Vector..

Consult Distrowatch search page for "Distros for Older PC's"
http://distrowatch.com/search.php?ca...&status=Active

arif_moin · 09-15-2007, 06:51 PM

Thanks for all your replies ppls, I tried about every single mini distro in the book

Finally, Puppy Linux worked best for me. I would've really liked Xubuntu but the hardware was way too old to support it. I tried DSL & DSL-N but the ethernet card just wouldn't work- probably noob woes...

So, for all people who have a junk ol' Toshiba Satellite Pro 445 CDX laptop Pentium 133mhz to spare, go for Puppy linux...