View Poll Results: What is your favorite Linux distribution for older/weaker hardware?
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Arch
2 2.78% -
Damn Small Linux (DSL)
17 23.61% -
Debian
14 19.44% -
Puppy
12 16.67% -
Slackware
10 13.89% -
Vector
4 5.56% -
Zenwalk
4 5.56% -
Other (please list below)
9 12.50%
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don't know how old/week you mean but: dell 8100 pentium 3 256megs ram. I run xubuntu on it and it works flawlessly...ironicly/sadly it is at this point working out better ...
- 07-23-2008 #21Linux Newbie
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don't know how old/week you mean but: dell 8100 pentium 3 256megs ram. I run xubuntu on it and it works flawlessly...ironicly/sadly it is at this point working out better than my dell 4700 with 2gigs ram ubuntu 7.10. but i'm plugging away at it.
- 12-15-2008 #22Just Joined!
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I have a pentium 1 laptop 166 mhz with < 96 megs of ram, 10 gig hard drive, and debian etch works just fine with x.
- 12-15-2008 #23Linux Guru
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My vote went to Puppy. It is one of the easiest small distros to set up a old laptop with a Pentium 1 or 2, 64 mb ram, 2 gig hardrive, with a Wireless PCMCIA linux compatible Cardbus.
Just be careful when using root is all.Linux Registered User # 475019
Lead,Follow, or get the heck out of the way
AntiX,Puppy,Ubuntu,Windows 7=(cuz of scooters)
- 12-15-2008 #24Just Joined!
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I've just discovered a new distro that should work well on older systems, called Slax -- its only a 189MB ISO, KDE based, and can be run either as a live disk or loaded on your hard drive. Its pretty peppy for something so small...
Cheers!
the0wl
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