[Liverpool] Advice

[Andrew Williams]

On 11/03/2008, Sujita Purushothaman <sujita at skhot.net> wrote:
> I have an old
> laptop that currently runs on Windows 98 ( :-) ). It has 10GB hard disk
> space and 128 MB RAM. Pretty old. I want to install linux on it. I
> wouldn't be storing much data on it, I'd still like to leave Windows on
> it, so I have 5GB to play with. What distros are lightweight, but have a
> easy to use package management system? ( I would need python (+devel)
> and gcc libs immediately). Thanks!
>

Debian, if it runs Win98 ok then it should be fine with a base install
of Debian. With 128mb ram you'll be limited down on what you can do,
no full gnome desktop, but im sure you could run X with the likes of
Fluxbox or XFCE.

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