I often put xUbuntu on basic home servers for friends, which are usually made up of well out of date components to give them a new life. They're more confident having a GUI on their servers and I'm confident that it will run on old equipment. I've had xUbuntu running fine on 128MB RAM, so I wouldn't expect any problems for you. <br>
<br>The xUbuntu install disc is the live disc as well, so you'll soon know if it will run once you download it, nothing to lose.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Sujita Purushothaman <<a href="mailto:sujita@skhot.net">sujita@skhot.net</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">Richard Smedley wrote:<br>
> Debian will be fine - choose the laptop packages during<br>
> install. You probably want to install IceWM as your<br>
> window manager, if you want something light but<br>
> Windows like. XFCe would also be fine (thus XUbuntu<br>
> is another choice - or OpenGEU (formerly Geubuntu)).<br>
><br>
> GNOME will run too, but things will grind if you open<br>
> up OOo or Firefox.<br>
><br>
> btw What laptop is it? Some old ones have problematic hardware,<br>
> which is usually well-documented somewhere.<br>
><br>
</div>It's a made in Taiwan, re-branded in Malaysia laptop. Used to have a<br>
problem with Red Hat 6.0 and 7.0 (graphics driver problems, the last<br>
time I tried to install linux on it was quite a few years ago). It can<br>
run Knoppix 3.0 and above without problems though. I'm currently<br>
undecided between Debian and Puppy Linux - I don't want to spend hours<br>
fixing problems, and Puppy Linux looks like a new-ish distro that may<br>
require this. :-( I don't know about Xubuntu.<br>
<br>
Has anyone here tried Puppy Linux or Xubuntu?<br>
<br>
Thanks, everyone.<br>
<br>
Rgds,<br>
<font color="#888888">Sujita<br>
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