[COLUG] Seeking recommendations for Linux distro for ancient laptop

[Paul Williams]

On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 12:07 -0400, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> Hi, all,
> 
> I have this ancient Dell laptop that has suddenly become my primary
> Linux box.  It's had an install of RedHat 9 on it since 2003, but
> since it is maxed out at 256MB of RAM, is a bit sluggish when browsing
> with Firefox, opening OpenOffice files, etc.
> 
> I would love to upgrade to a newer laptop, but that's not practical
> for 4-6 months.  I have to make do with what I have in front of me.
> Does anyone have any recommendations for lightweight distros that are
> sophisticated enough to run a graphical web browser and OOffice?  Disk
> space is not a limiting factor here, neither is raw CPU speed... it's
> only physical memory limitations that's really giving me fits here.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -ethan
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Xubuntu comes to mind. It is basically Ubuntu, but it uses the Xfce
desktop environment, which does not require a lot of resources.
http://www.xubuntu.org/

You could always just install E17 or Fluxbox if you are only using it
for browsing and document editing. 

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