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Can someone help me get a good distro (not a baby distro like puppy or something) for a slow laptop, it may not be 300mhz, it might be 500mhz or even 100mhz, and it might be 32mb to 64mb of ram. Thanks.
I have an old P2 450 laptop and I like to run Xubuntu on it. I tryed various things from running a full blown new distro to running puppy, and I found xubuntu to be the best balance of features vs. performance. It was feature rich enough for my non-geek wife to like it so that in itself validates the care put into xubuntus xfce setup.
ok, ATM i'm trying out a distro using Xfce called zenwalk, i dont have the old computer yet, but i'm seeing what i can use before, thats why i have a range of speed/memory. Thx, i do like k/ubuntu (i use it as my main distro), so maybe that'll be good.
Slackware or Zenwalk (more userfriendly, but Slackware based).
With your hardware a full-featured linux distribution and runs quite good, it runs really fast if you use the default windowmanager XFCE, quite fast with fluxbox, only fast with KDE.
It is your choice, but one of these distributions would be a GOOD choice.
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