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Old 09-13-2011, 09:03 AM   #1
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Please suggest Distro for laptop


Hi Geeks,
Please suggest good Linux distro for my laptop.

my requirement :
programming ->60 %
entertainment -->20 %
powerful tools for communication and ethical hacking --> 20 %

Mylaptop :
2GB RAM
i3 2nd generation 2.20 Ghz procs


Thanks a lot in advance

Thnaks and regards
Rajesh Kumar v
 
Old 09-13-2011, 09:21 AM   #2
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Any distro will do.

Kind regards
 
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Old 09-13-2011, 01:12 PM   #3
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Hi Geeks,
Please suggest good Linux distro for my laptop.
Hi
I like Fedora 15 on my desktops for a programming and a multimedia.
 
Old 09-13-2011, 01:27 PM   #4
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Lots of people,including me, use Debian.
Do a standard install, you get Gnome desktop & lots of good apps to do almost anything.
Size of install approx 3.7gb
 
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Old 09-14-2011, 09:31 PM   #5
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I find that Crunchbang (which is Debian with Openbox) is a good and stable distro for laptops and netbooks.
 
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Old 09-14-2011, 11:36 PM   #6
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LMDE for a inexperienced wishes to use new Debian user.
 
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Old 09-15-2011, 09:42 PM   #7
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I have been very happy with vector linux lite on my laptop.
like all slackware not for the uninitiated but lightning fast.
also slackware doesn't do the absurd crap about devel packages like all "other" linux distros do.
makes it the only distro besides Linux from scratch you can actually program on.
 
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Old 09-17-2011, 12:10 AM   #8
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I'm running Slackware 13.37 just fine on my old-ass Thinkpad T41 (512 Mb RAM). If you really know what you're doing you can get way tiny in size. But that's true for many distros. Debian, for example. That would be a good middle ground between the configurability of Slackware and the user-friendliness of, say, Ubuntu, which I ran on this thing for five years before switching to Slack.

But ultimately any will run fine, so it's up to you.
 
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Old 09-17-2011, 12:48 AM   #9
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Lots of people,including me, use Debian.
+1, Debian is a good system. If you want eye candy you could try LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) or any of the other Linux Mint Debian variants.
 
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Old 09-27-2011, 02:10 PM   #10
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Another vote for any distro. Well, almost any. As you can see, my faves are Fedora and Ubuntu.
 
  


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