Small Easy linux for VERY low end PC
Here's my PC configuration:
Iam currently using windows XP sp2 And now iam tired of it running too slow and frequent hangs so iam shifting to linux i know nothing about linux I have the following expectations from the new OS
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How about Puppy? It's easy to use and there's a USB image if you have no access to a CD burner at all.
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Take a look at
puppy, tiny linux, debian.... An older article: http://www.linux.com/news/hardware/d...older-hardware |
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=tinycore
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=puppy Speaking of "Tiny Core" - I'm not sure it will serf Web smoothly, but it is very quick for your specs. |
Increase your RAM to 512mb+ and you can run any Linux distro you want. Ubuntu, Mint, and Puppy are very popular with first-time Linux users. Good luck! :)
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Try Absolute Linux 12.2 or v. 11. I have tried run it already in a 128mB. Download it from here. |
Puppy, slitaz, xpud, vector and I am sure more than a few others.
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I started with Linux running Slackware 10.0 on an IBM PC300 (first generation Pentium 300 MHz chip) with 256 MB RAM.
It ran fine--a little slow, but faster than my P3 ran XP. The one limitation was that the first generation Pentium chip could not deal with video, though it was fine with audio. I second snowpine's recommendation to buy more RAM. RAM is cheap these days and is the cheapest and easiest way to improve performance. I recently upped this P4 from 512 MB to 4 GB RAM and it has made a world of difference. With a little more RAM, you should be able to run just about anything on that box. Get a nice USB external CD/DVD reader/writer and you will be set. Dalco sells nice reliable stuff cheap. One question though: Is it a P4 or a Celeron? They aren't the same, but, if you're not planning to do heavy-duty scientific calculations, it probably doesn't matter all that much. |
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