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I am brand new to this forum, and to Linux. I am a big fan of open source software, and I'd love to convert my old Win98 laptop to Linux. I'll do my best to not ask redundant questions -- I hate when people forget to search first.
(BTW - anyone reading this who has a rec for a not-too-hard-to-install version that will work on a Pentium II with 192 MB memory and a 4G hard drive? I've been looking around at the comparisons, but not too many people have such little memory, and smaller hard drives.)
Last edited by MadameBlavatsky; 12-23-2005 at 05:17 PM.
Hi and welcome to LQ For your hardware, I would recommend Damn Small Linux, Puppy Linux, Slackware or Debian - they all run very well on older/slower hardware. If you can get more memory for that laptop, I would definitely recommend it.
Whichever one you use, you will have to do a bit of reading to work out what you do and don't need - for example, neither KDE nor Gnome will give you any sort of usable speeds on that laptop.
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For your hardware, I would recommend Damn Small Linux, Puppy Linux, Slackware or Debian - they all run very well on older/slower hardware. If you can get more memory for that laptop, I would definitely recommend it.
