distro advice

Mobius 1 · 23 Nov 2007 at 22:55

what would you guys recommend for an AMD 1.1ghz pc and 256 of RAM? ive already tried mint and ubuntu, and the graphical installers are so dog slow i got quite annoyed with it. anyone got any tips or advice? cheers! (i wanna get 20 quid for this pc

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Chaos · 23 Nov 2007 at 23:05

Could try puppy linux.

fumbles · 24 Nov 2007 at 01:06

Arch Linux, provided you have some experance in Linux, or you are a fast learner.

I run a PIII 500Mhz 128Mb run fine with it.

PhilGQ · 1 Dec 2007 at 14:23

Maybe try the current LTS 6.06 of Ubuntu, its requirements are less demanding becasue it older.

Sp!ke · 1 Dec 2007 at 15:17

Xubuntu is a possibility as well. Runs happily on my ageing xp2400 with 256Mb of ram with little to no tweaking.

~S

Rich43 · 1 Dec 2007 at 21:23

+1 for xubuntu

toothe · 3 Dec 2007 at 15:29

slackware if its server based.

if its not what you using it for, dont see how people can say install this distro when they have no idea what the pcs going to be used for

whitecrook · 3 Dec 2007 at 19:26

It'll be your RAM, I installed ubuntu on a 1Ghz Athlon with 512Meg and it was absolutly fine. Lack of mem really kills performance.

That being, said, the above suggestions are good.

I'd maybe just install Xbuntu, or another lighterweight win manager. Maybe Debian + WindowMaker or something.

Mobius 1 · 3 Dec 2007 at 21:54

cheers for the advice guys!