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06-13-2011, 03:50 PM
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Registered: Jun 2011
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distro suggestions for old laptop
it has these specs:
athlon xp 3000-m
768 mb ram
ati mobility radeon 9000
thnx in advance
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06-13-2011, 04:25 PM
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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.
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06-14-2011, 06:28 AM
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Distribution: No more Linux. Done with it.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by drou
it has these specs:
athlon xp 3000-m
768 mb ram
ati mobility radeon 9000
thnx in advance
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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...). |
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06-14-2011, 12:45 PM
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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
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06-14-2011, 01:24 PM
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OpenSuse is heavy. Why not start with LUbuntu?
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