[nylug-talk] Distro Recommendation... for an old, cruddy machine.

[Brian Gupta]

http://www.xubuntu.org/ is designed for low memory systems..

On Jan 6, 2008 4:13 PM, oscar zero <oscar.zero.zero at gmail.com> wrote:
> The glories of water damage have finally done in Ol' Betsy (version
> 6.93)... thank you broken Quick-Connect in the upstairs bathroom...
>
> Now, I'm sitting on a horrible, horrible ol' Dell... which I'm about
> to toss for a less horrible old Mobo that clocks in at a whoppin' 987
> MHz... the only memory that I have that'll fit in the ol' bird are 2
> sticks that'll give me a grand total of 256mb of memory... a PCI ATI
> Radeon 9200 video card I managed to salvage is also up in that beast.
> ;)
>
> Now, I did a test install of Ubuntu on the "new" system... she
> upgraded to 7.10 off of an old 7.04 (took her forever and a day..)
>
> So figure she'll take an install of XP Pro I have lying around, then I
> can slap on a Linux distro so that she won't bloat too quickly...
>
> Query:
>
> What Distro would you savvy Linux Shills drop on a sub-1-GHz, 256MB, 120gig HD?
>
> I have a copy of Damn Small Linux, but I'm having difficulties getting
> DSL to act as a fully enabled system (you know, for pr0n).
>
> Recommendations are thanked for in advance... and I'd rather save my
> pennies to buy a new box in the near future... rather than spend any
> real cash on this Ol' Girl.
>
> ^_-
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