Which Linux?

MarkW7

MarkW7

MarkW7

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Hi all,

Does anyone know the link to the linux test you can take - were you answer question and it tells you at the end.

Or anyone here can help;

P2; 333MHz
Ram; 256.
MS6132

It's just a computer someone handed me and i don't want to chuck it but i dont know what to do with it.

:)
 
333 :p,

I've got Ubuntu on my Laptop so i know the Basics i didnt know if it'd run on such a slow 333.
Doing test now, thanks.
 
Damn Small Linux or another distro which you can build up to be lightweight (Slackware, Arch, Gentoo). I don't think you will get a huge amount of usability out of those specs sadly, so you will need something with as little bloat as possible, maybe go with openbox or similar for window management or the XFCE desktop environment should just run. But I would avoid KDE and Gnome.
 
Yeah, i want the smallest linux going. :)

On the test i keep getting;
Open suse,
Fedora.

Then
Ubuntu [Computer May be to slow]
 
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Go some time to kill? Gentoo with xfce4 worked very well my old p2 with 128meg of ram! :D

Arch would be another good option....

Its all about the things you do/dont install, so id recomend trying to only have the essentials on there :)
 
You'll find that almost all variants of linux will run on that spec - just that you'll have to use a light weight window manager like XFCE (as has already been mentioned). Los of people run the latest debian on specs not much higher than you've got there,.
 
I've read through some linux's and like everyone on here has said it needs XCFE interface instead of Gnome / KDE.

I don't really know what it is apart from a simpler desktop enviroment? Can i get Ubuntu and put XCFE on it?

Could someone list the Distros with XCFE's installed?

Thanks.
 
Just go to Distrowatch.com and click distros on the table to the right.

The higher ones are usually the better ones. Read the blurb on the page that describes each distro.

Known small desktop distros:
Slitaz
Damn Small Linux
Puppy Linux
Tiny Core Linux

Be aware that due to their nature small distros have a limited catalog of pre-compiled apps too.
 
Pfft just stick Debian on it, and as soon as you can do
apt-get install xfce

then use that as your window manager - problem solves /thread
 
If you don't like the 'feel' of DSL or some of the other lightweight distros listed above you might consider Crunchbang. It's Ubuntu with OpenBox which should be lighter than XFCE. If you're up for a bit oif a challenge you might thiink about doing a Debian core install which is CLI-only, then adding X and OpenBox. You could then add just the programs you need.

Firefox can be made much faster if you use NoScript to kill scripting. AdBlock can also speed the loading/rendering times for many pages.
 
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