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light-weight distros
« Thread Started on Sept 13, 2011, 10:17am »

Had to mention SalineOS in the "Which Lightweight Distro do you prefer and why?" thread at the Ubuntu forums: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1842053

I didn't see any other comments about Saline there, though.

Actually, if I was trying to put Linux on a really old computer, I might go with something else; it depends.

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Re: light-weight distros
« Reply #1 on Sept 13, 2011, 11:10pm »

Sept 13, 2011, 10:17am, malspa wrote:

For machines with less than 512 megabytes of RAM, it really is best to go with a LXDE or OpenBox based distro. You forgo the niceities that Xfce brings, but you do get a faster system. OpenBox is especially good at not getting in the way, just a bit bare bones for some.

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Re: light-weight distros
« Reply #2 on Sept 16, 2011, 12:46pm »

Sept 13, 2011, 10:17am, malspa wrote:

I had a look at the new ArchBang, it's Openbox and very light. See it here: http://archbang.org/

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Re: light-weight distros
« Reply #3 on Sept 16, 2011, 4:21pm »

Crunchbang has an Openbox version and is based on Squeeze, as is SalineOS.

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Re: light-weight distros
« Reply #4 on Sept 18, 2011, 12:14am »

I too have been thinking about this again lately. An elderly woman (in her 70s) sent her computer home with me to install linux on it. I was shocked that she even knows what it is. Win98 has always been flaky and she hates it. The computer isn't powerful enough to upgrade to a newer windows and she wouldn't spend the money anyway. She only uses her computer to play card games when there is nothing on TV. She doesn't even have internet and doesn't want it.

6 GB hard drive. 586 series 500MHz processor. 128MB of sd100 ram. I added a 64MB stick that I had which brings the total to 196MB.

So which distro to install? All she needs is a taskbar and a menu and lots of card games. No internet. No office apps. I tried Debian net-install but it wouldn't even boot. Saline won't boot because the machine only has a CD-ROM (no DVD). LegacyOS (formerly TeenPup) installed but only has a few games and nothing in the repository.

I tried Zenwalk, Salix, and Wolvix. None of them will even boot.

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Re: light-weight distros
« Reply #5 on Sept 18, 2011, 7:21am »

@ bohu

with a system that old I would install vector version 5
this will run ok on that machine and has lots of games and many more that can be downloaded.

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Re: light-weight distros
« Reply #6 on Sept 18, 2011, 4:45pm »

Sept 18, 2011, 7:21am, gnuuser wrote:

@ bohu

with a system that old I would install vector version 5
this will run ok on that machine and has lots of games and many more that can be downloaded.

I agree. That or find a copy of Xandros.

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Re: light-weight distros
« Reply #7 on Oct 1, 2011, 5:47pm »

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An elderly woman (in her 70s)

. Not that far away for me or wife. We don't think of our world traveler neighbors, both well over 70, as "elderly". When was the last time you walked among the penguins in Antarctica? Maybe when you no longer need "Proactive" you won't be so insensitive.

you might want to try Puppy linux...my ancient compaq presario with a K6-2 433mhz and 192M runs it nicely. I can't speak to the games but lupu is ubuntu based so it should have a pretty good complement in the repos. It does take some patience to set up since no way will the old machine ever be fast, but it loads and runs better than it ever did with '98.

Paul

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Re: light-weight distros
« Reply #8 on Oct 3, 2011, 2:50pm »

CTKArch... It's Arch with an openbox desktop. Can't get more up to date than Arch. Comes as a live cd that is installable. You can install whatever you want from AUR and any Arch updates are tested by CTK before you update your own system. I have another box just like this one I'll be installing it to play with so I can learn Openbox.

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Re: light-weight distros
« Reply #9 on Oct 27, 2011, 11:54am »

I have been testing cruxex its a distro based on crux and its a fast little distro there package system is in cli but easy to use if you have used arch it will be a walk in park heres the site http://cruxex.exton.net/ the person makes a few othere respins but more for swedish folk http://linux.exton.net/

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