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Old 06-13-2011, 03:50 PM   #1
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Question distro suggestions for old laptop

it has these specs:
athlon xp 3000-m
768 mb ram
ati mobility radeon 9000
thnx in advance
 
Old 06-13-2011, 04:25 PM   #2
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A good comparison of the top distros is here: http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major

Personally I think Mint is a nice introduction if it's your first time using Linux.

On older hardware you might get a performance boost using the Xfce or LXDE desktop environments.

Good luck!
 
Old 06-14-2011, 06:28 AM   #3
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it has these specs:
athlon xp 3000-m
768 mb ram
ati mobility radeon 9000
thnx in advance
Your laptop is pretty capable of running any distribution. You should look at DE, not the distro itself. LXDE/XFCE are OK for speed. Gnome/KDE are heavy. WMs are fastest (like IceWM, OpenBox, FluxBox, dwm...).
 
Old 06-14-2011, 12:45 PM   #4
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thank you for your answers,
i will try opensuse (i read it's good for laptops) with openbox which looks good
 
Old 06-14-2011, 01:24 PM   #5
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OpenSuse is heavy. Why not start with LUbuntu?
 
  


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