Which distro to pun on this computer?

junglemike · 03-21-2007, 04:35 PM

Hello. My primary student laptop is Thinkpad T21 (P3-800mhz/512ram/30gb) I installed there latest Kubuntu and was very happy w/ it. But since I'm a newbie I killed some important data (i used dualboot with win2000)

So Now I have a separate laptop for my linux learning that I can do anything with it.

Ibm Thinkpad 770
Cpu...... Pentium 1 - 233mhz mmx
Ram........ 192mb (it won's see 2x256 slots, prolly too old)
video resolution.. 1024x768
hdd.........20gb (can put more)

I know this laptop might be little old, But that's what I have now.
I would like any destribution that would work with REASONABLE SPEED on this laptop.
What would you recommend?

puntjuh · 03-21-2007, 07:46 PM

if you don't require the use of a graphical env. you could pick any. If you do, perhaps debian is for you, using xfce, a lightweight graphical env.

jacook · 03-21-2007, 09:10 PM

Kubuntu
http://www.kubuntu.org/

Mandriva
http://www.mandriva.com/community/mandrivaone

PCLinuxOS .92
http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/metalab/dist...glish/preview/
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/metalab/distr...glish/preview/

This is the distro I use and recommend, Why because it works right out of the box. No need to configure Everything, everything just works. It also comes as a 1 CD install that is a live CD that you can install later if you wish.

Mephis
http://www.mepis.org/

Blag
http://www.blagblagblag.org/download/

Vector Linux
http://www.vectorlinux.com/

DSL
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

Puppy Linux
http://www.puppylinux.org/user/viewpage.php?page_id=3

Slackware
http://www.slackware.com/

SLAX Live CD
http://www.slax.org/

BeaFanatIX
http://bea.cabarel.com/

Elive:
http://www.elivecd.org/

Deli
http://delili.lens.hl-users.com/

Luit Linux
http://luitlinux.sarovar.org/