I have a somewhat older computer system (PIII 1GHz, 512MB RAM) that I would like to run Linux on. I've already tried Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Debian stable, and Gentoo 2006.1 on it, but I've ran into miscellaneous problems with each. For example, I had no trouble installing any of them, but Gentoo would crash trying to load X, Debian didn't work with my mouse, Kubuntu was way too bloated and slow, and I don't really like Ubuntu. What distro should I use? I'd like something very responsive and lightweight, but that doesn't use a nasty WM like Fluxbox. Anybody have a good recommendation? What about Slackware? Is it any good?
2006-12-10 08:15:35 · 5 answers · asked by Snowbourne 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Try xubuntu, it's in the ubuntu family, but uses the xfce desktop for lower end computers.
2006-12-10 16:32:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I ran SuSE 9 on a lower spec machine than yours without problem. Just upgraded to the version 10 of the desktop version (Novell SLED 10) on my laptop and it performs way better than XP.
My laptop is 1.8GHz with 1GB of RAM, but sure it will run on a lot less than that.
2006-12-10 08:20:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It relies upon on which working equipment is presently on it, what hardware it has (how lots RAM, what variety of CPU and how briskly that's and how lots finished disk area). with out understanding all that, the only answer is "possibly".
2016-10-18 01:58:41 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
slackware is crap, i would go with a red hat version or fedora.
2006-12-10 08:27:43 · answer #4 · answered by sarah 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know! Check out
http://distrowatch.com/
2006-12-10 08:20:47 · answer #5 · answered by iamrlk 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋