[COLUG] Seeking recommendations for Linux distro for ancient laptop

[Kent Broestl]

I have a decent (1.4GHz) processor, 256MB RAM, running Debian Etch, with 
xfce, and I can attest to it becoming a lot speedier after switching 
from KDE.

Firefox and OO are even tolerable (not great, but tolerable)

Thunderbird, which I used to compose this message) has never really 
caused any problems, either.

And for anyone who thinks that xfce has to be spartan... check out 
http://xfce-look.org. There are some very creative people out there 
using this stuff.

-Kent

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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