Looking for a lite distro for 7 years old laptop

[Angelina]

Looking for a distro suitable for an old Toshiba Laptop.

Needed for:

word processing, presentation, spreadsheet (Preferably OpenOffice)
internet and email (Mozilla Suite will do or Firefox and Thunderbird)

Specs are as follows:

Toshiba Satellite Pro CDX

133 MHz Pentium MMX
16 MB Memory
1.3 GB Harddisk

Any help greatly appriciated

[UgoDeschamps]

debian works really well when settings the system to minimal configuration... during install choose the minimal package, on install the package you need after that... I ran this setup on a OLD pentium1 with 64Mb Ram.


I guess it should run ok on your setup too

[jeremy1701]

Ubuntu is an excellent Debian based distro. It's small and fast and more uptodate then regular Debian.

Jeremy

[Vergil83]

you might try http://www.yoper.com/index.html

the most important thing is not to run KDE or GNOME, but rather a lighter de such as FVWM or blackbox

[Angelina]

thx guys, i'll post my results

[Angelina]

on the machine, I've given the specs for, following distros didn't work:

Beatrix,
Ubuntu,
Damn Small Linux

Debian 3.0 seems to work for me, however I'll have to reinstall with the minimums and see how it suits my needs

[genesus]

Vector Linux is a slackware derivative that is optimized for older laptops, runs really well, you should give it a try

[lordnothing]

This topic has been covered *many* times on the forums. If you want information about the various distros, check http://distrowatch.org

Alternatively, you could search google using this string:

site&#58;linuxforums.org <search-string>

Replace <search-string> with what you are looking for.

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