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View Poll Results: What is your favorite Linux distribution for older/weaker hardware?
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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Old 07-23-2008   #21 (permalink)
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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.
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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.
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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.

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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...

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