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zippzom
 Post subject: Which Distro
PostPosted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 3:12 pm 
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I have an old laptop, a gateway solo, with a 500 mhz pentium (i think) and 160 mb of ram. I want to give it to my brother. Which distro would be the best? It only needs to run a word processor (probably open office) and go online.
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Xubuntu is nice. Oh, but DSL and Puppy are even smaller.
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I was under the impression that puppy was only a live CD that ran in the RAM. can it be installed? I've never heard of DSL.
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Any LIVE version of Linux can be installed to the HD. They're just cool because they CAN be run from a CD, instead of just the HD.
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Honestly, I wouldn't expect much from that hardware. It's still usable, bit you'll always notice it could be so much better. Anyway, I'd suggest a minimal install of Debian or Ubuntu server (just a very stripped down version of Ubuntu) and load your own desktop environment like Fluxbox or Windowmaker.
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