[COLUG] Seeking recommendations for Linux distro for ancient laptop

[Robert Forster]

Try this out:  http://www.archlinux.org/
Everything you need and nothing you don't.  I've run this on a few
older machines with xfce as the WM and they seem VERY responsive.

On 3/29/07, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> 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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