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Question of the Day: Will you be subscribing to the new Disney+ R49 streaming package?
Recommend me a distro or two to try.
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abandonallhope
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Or I could come pull your teeth out, should be a slightly less unpleasant experience :|
gregmcc
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Celeron....
Dos 6.22
Dos 6.22
MyWorld
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Puppylinux - I personally do not like it but it is a champ on old hardware, even pre PII hardware. One complete pain to use on a daily basis IMHO
Bodi Linux - *buntu base with E17, very slick. Matter of fact I'm running it on my daughters old Compaq Evo N1050v 1.8 Celeron.
Chrunchbang - Debian based
Lubuntu - maybe, it was a bit sluggish on the old laptop, but workable
And if you have the time:
Arch Linux with either Fluxbox or Openbox.
The trick is to use as lightweight apps as possible:
Web browser - Midori
Filemanager - pcmanfm, rox or something similar
Media - Xnoise
etc.
Bodi Linux - *buntu base with E17, very slick. Matter of fact I'm running it on my daughters old Compaq Evo N1050v 1.8 Celeron.
Chrunchbang - Debian based
Lubuntu - maybe, it was a bit sluggish on the old laptop, but workable
And if you have the time:
Arch Linux with either Fluxbox or Openbox.
The trick is to use as lightweight apps as possible:
Web browser - Midori
Filemanager - pcmanfm, rox or something similar
Media - Xnoise
etc.
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MickZA
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Just for fun try Chrome OS.
I played with it over the weekend and it would be interesting to to find out how fast it boots on your laptop. It seemed slow running from a USB stick on a dual core 2.6 pentium.
I played with it over the weekend and it would be interesting to to find out how fast it boots on your laptop. It seemed slow running from a USB stick on a dual core 2.6 pentium.
Puppylinux - Don't like it, tried it and macpup
Bodi Linux - Tried it don't like it, can't stand Enlightenment
Chrunchbang - Nice distro but packages to old and apt-pinning can become a real biatch if you mix repos
Lubuntu - Currently running that and it works fine
Arch Linux - Had Arch on it for many years but got tired of the frequent updates.
Maybe I should just do a Manjaro netinstall instead of screwing around.
G-Dog
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Not sure if it will work, but you could always give it a bash...
VortexBox, its a dedicated multimedia distro
VortexBox, its a dedicated multimedia distro
The_Ogre
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Maybe '05 laptop?
1.5GB RAM.... I had 1GB RAM in 2003 and it was a heck of a lot at that time.
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Try opensuse its much more polished than ubuntu.
Gentoo is great if you want to learn more about linux.
If you want a very stable distro get debian.
Any of the above you will run without noticing any slow down, with that hardware you can run kde, gnome and unity just fine.
DrJohnZoidberg
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You could also try the Fedora LXDE spin if you want to go RPM based distro.
MyWorld
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I have to disagree. I have a similar laptop and KDE is a no-go, likewise with Cinnamon and Gnome. Cinnamon is usable, but barely.
Also Gentoo on such a laptop will take forever to compile, it will take you almost a complete day to only compile LibreOffice should you choose to install it.
+1 KDE will kill that laptop, I tried it once for schites and giggles
The most it will take is a bare bones XFCE based netinstall, nothing more.My Gentoo days are long gone and I have no desire to reacquaint that beast.
I think I'm just gonna get Manjaro 0.8.4 Openbox & Crunchbang 11 (Waldorf). I can always add a DE to those if required. And after playing for a while I'll probably end up with Manjaro
This is almost as bad as me ordering something in a restaurant.
This is almost as bad as me ordering something in a restaurant.
MyWorld
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I have Cinnarch on my netbook (1.8 Atom) and I'm very happy with it. Maybe give that a shot as well?
Same problem as Arch, too many updates. Looks nice though.
Tinuva
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See I really liked the Crunchbang looks and choices of apps, except I didn't want debian, I wanted it on Ubuntu.
So I installed Ubuntu minimal install cd, added the Crunchbang repo to Ubuntu, and installed the same packages as Crunchbang would, now I have Ubuntu that looks like Crunchbang. I expected it to break, but it seems it ended up pulling only the themes and some configs from the Crunchbang repo, rest of the apps still come from the the Ubuntu repos.
Very happy with this setup now, because I wanted steam, and it was too much of a mission to get steam to work on debian, where as on Ubuntu it just works.
So I installed Ubuntu minimal install cd, added the Crunchbang repo to Ubuntu, and installed the same packages as Crunchbang would, now I have Ubuntu that looks like Crunchbang. I expected it to break, but it seems it ended up pulling only the themes and some configs from the Crunchbang repo, rest of the apps still come from the the Ubuntu repos.
Very happy with this setup now, because I wanted steam, and it was too much of a mission to get steam to work on debian, where as on Ubuntu it just works.
I think I'm just gonna get Manjaro 0.8.4 Openbox & Crunchbang 11 (Waldorf). I can always add a DE to those if required. And after playing for a while I'll probably end up with Manjaro
This is almost as bad as me ordering something in a restaurant.
I don't know why nobody ever mentions PCLinuxOS. I've been using it for a good 5 years and it serves my purposes well. Comes in lots of flavours aswell. I see it's 3 votes away from Manjaro (which I had never heard of) on Distrowatch. ;-)