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Hello, I'm going to explain my situation to you. I have a pretty old computer which runs windows xp service pack 2 with roughly a 35 gb hard drive, along ...
  1. 06-22-2009 #1
    ak47basketball
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    Need Help in regards to choosing the right linux distro for my system.

    Hello,
    I'm going to explain my situation to you. I have a pretty old computer which runs windows xp service pack 2 with roughly a 35 gb hard drive, along with only 256 mb of ram. Now I need to figure out which distro would work best. I've taken many online "tests or quizzes" in which will help you choose the best distro and they all manly have openSuse or Fedora as the main ones and sometimes Linux mint. Now this is all well and good but it is my assumption all of these either recommend or require more than 256 mb of ram. I don't want to have a distro (unless recommended) that has a minimum of 256 mb because i don't want it to turn into something similar to xp in which is slow. So can i get some suggestion along with some reasoning on which distro would be best.

    Thank you so much for any help!
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    I'm pretty new to linux myself and I too had the same problem of win xp being too slow. My system is 1.6ghz processor, 1gb ram (originally 512mb) and 60gb HD (although I have an external HD now too). I tried out ubuntu which worked fine but I recently got mint which works like a dream. My specs are a little better than yours but my laptop is still pretty darned old so I can relate.

    There are "lightweight" installs of some distros available. Definitely for ubuntu anyway. They are designed specifically to run on older systems.
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    Welcome to the forums!

    You can check the following link for favorite distro for lower spec computer hardware as voted by our membership:

    http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/cof...re-2009-a.html

    Hope you find something you like.
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    Thanks for posting that link, however if at all possible im looking for a more *not sure how to put it* advanced *i guess* distro similar to opensuse or fedora or ubuntu etc. do you think any of those would work? Also how about linux mint?

    Thanks
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    Try Xubuntu - it is Ubuntu with a lighter desktop so it should run in your specs OK
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    You can try Fedora 11 with LXDE. It is a modified Fedors that might run better in older hardware. There is Xubuntu like someone mentioned and maybe you might even like Puppy Linux which will breeze with that much RAM.

    Fedora 11 - LXDE Released - (by Rahul) - FedoraForum.org
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