small linux os, fast, youtube compatible, with some kind of office
Hello, I am new to the forums so I have no idea how to start a post (or is it post a post?) anyway I am trying to get some live out of my dads pc, and its not really getting anywhere, I need help.
My dads pc has 2.53 Ghz cpu, 1.25 GB RAM, a poor intergrated gpu, 120 GB HDD. He only needs his pc to watch youtube videos and to make some screenshots of those and copy it into a lo writer (or ms word, or...) file that is everything! Sounds not much, but I have tryed ubuntu 12.04 LTS...no, I have tryed ubuntu studio 12.04 LTS (since it is on xfce and doesent need a lot)... not working, btw. the 13.04 versions wont get installed, but that is not really relewant for youtube, I tryed win xp with the lovest amound of visual fx with sp3 and stuff, but I always have a problem with a corrupt svchost.exe file wich I have replaced about a houndret times, and I really dont know what am I gonna do :( please help |
A few:
http://www.slax.org/ http://bosslinux.in/ http://www.therebellin.com/ http://www.zorin-os.com/ http://www.linuxliteos.com/ They are specifically aimed at Windows users transitioning to Linux. Supposed to work on older hardware as well. Try them for yourself. HTH |
Her's a pretty good listing of what may help you.
http://distrowatch.com/search.php?ca...=Old+Computers Personally I can recommend VectorLinux out of that list. It has most everything you would probably want in the default installation. I've also heard good things about Antix but haven't used it myself. Slitaz is probably the lightest on resources and I use it on my laptop but with the current release there are a few annoyances you would have to correct and not knowing your level of knowledge I'd hesitate to recommend it. |
Can you be more specific than "not working"? :)
I have had good results with AntiX and CrunchBang for old hardware. |
Before going any further, having repeatdly corrupted files on that machine sounds like there is a hardware issue. I would recommend to check at least the RAM and the harddisk for errors, have a look at this on how to do that: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...re-4175461588/
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This is not old hardware needing some special Linux: it's bigger and faster than either of my computers.
Ubuntu will not install because the installation disk only works with a dedicated graphics card (and it's a bit fussy about which one, too). Try Linux Mint (use the failsafe boot option) and Vector Linux, and see which he prefers. |
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thank you everybody so much for your replys I am going to check them out...now.....................................................................(...)
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The real problem seems to be that Canonical are only testing on a small range of up-to-date computers — they don't have the large team of disparate developers you find in independent distros — and the testing releases are probably not downloaded by many, since Ubuntu hardly attracts hobbyists. There was a similar problem with the mysterious installer crashes a couple of years ago: the Ubuntu bugs are always in the bits they add rather in the Debian software, even though it is from the Unstable repository. |
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$ inxi -Fxz less powerful than this one I am posting with. http://oi43.tinypic.com/2dbndyr.jpg |
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I would go for Linux Mint XFCE on that hardware. Flash and CODECs should be fairly easy to install and XFCE is easily light enough for that hardware.
I'm typing this on an EEEPC 1.6GHz Atom with 1GB RAM and I regularly use it for YouTube videos and have used it to update my CV fairly recently. I use Debian unstable but Linux Mint XFCE won't be any more resource hungry and could be a little easier to install. In case you wonder why I use Debian but recommend Mint I prefer Debian as mint has things like sudo that I don't use, and I prefer to do some things manually but I only moved my EEEPC over to Debian recently from Mint and performance wise they're exactly the same using XFCE. |
I didn't think it it was relevant, but now I do... The pc has more and more issues, cuz ... you know... it is connected to a 16:9 Plazma LCD TV (oops)
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And it is running puppy linux now, and the image is non-stop lagging on movies, no subbtitles and gnome player wont show the image (that might be software) and I guess, it doesen't really help when I replace the intern GPU with an (old) extern (you know I thought I burned the intern) cuz, it is overheating... obviously, cuz the movie starts normal and than... LAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG...
cuz I want to say "cuz", cuz I'm making an idiot of myself cuz... I don't know |
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