[TriLUG] Linux version recommendations for OLD laptop...
James Jones
jc.jones at tuftux.com
Mon Jul 19 07:06:10 EDT 2010
Dave,
I have had great luck on both old laptops and old underpowered desktops with ---
xubuntu-8.04.1-alternate-i386.iso
jcj
On 7/19/10, Dave Cowan <davecowan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hey Luggers,
>
> I have an old Dell Latitude CPt S (yeaah, I know, don't laugh). It has an 500
> MHz Intel Celeron processor with 256 MB of ram. I was able to successfully
> install Windows XP SP3 but I'd like to try a version of Linux on it.
>
> I want to load Linux on it just to play around but have had issues with Ubuntu
> 9.04 and 10.04. Any recommendations on a fairly recent distribution of Linux
> that I might be able to successfully load on this dinosaur? Doesn't necessarily
> need to be Ubuntu.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
>
>
>
>
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