Suggest me medium weight Linux distros

[asifnaz]

I have an old PC Pentium III 1000 Mhz . With 256 ram and 20 GB hard disk .
I have Ubuntu (which runs very slow ) Lubuntu (currently using ) Puppy Linux and DSL .

Suggest me distros which can run normally and also have good looks and mature bulit.
Thank you

[rokytnji]

Antix would fly with those specs. Debian testing in sources list.

You might like LMDE also.

[coopstah13]

256M isn't enough to run what I would consider medium weight

I don't think XFCE would even run well on 256 with other apps going

with that little memory if you can't upgrade it, you should bite the bullet and install a lightweight WM so you can run the other apps without a problem

[Jonathan183]

256M isn't enough to run what I would consider medium weight

I don't think XFCE would even run well on 256 with other apps going

with that little memory if you can't upgrade it, you should bite the bullet and install a lightweight WM so you can run the other apps without a problem

I tend to agree ...

Option 1 - look for a light weight distro you like
Option 2 - look at a build what you want distro

Personally I go with option 2 and pick something binary based ... otherwise you will find compile times become an issue

Debian or Arch would do the job with a WM like fluxbox, IceWM or something similar. Try to select light weight applications also ...

I have a laptop with 256MB RAM and run Arch on it with IceWM ... firefox and openoffice take a bit of time to load

[MASONTX]

Lubuntu is a good choice, or you might try mint lxde edition.