[Liverpool] Advice

[Mark McBride]

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made up of well out of date components to give them a new life.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.

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.

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Sujita Purushothaman <sujita at skhot.net>
wrote:

> Richard Smedley wrote:
> > Debian will be fine - choose the laptop packages during
> > install. You probably want to install IceWM as your
> > window manager, if you want something light but
> > Windows like. XFCe would also be fine (thus XUbuntu
> > is another choice - or OpenGEU (formerly Geubuntu)).
> >
> > GNOME will run too, but things will grind if you open
> > up OOo or Firefox.
> >
> > btw What laptop is it? Some old ones have problematic hardware,
> > which is usually well-documented somewhere.
> >
> It's a made in Taiwan, re-branded in Malaysia laptop. Used to have a
> problem with Red Hat 6.0 and 7.0 (graphics driver problems, the last
> time I tried to install linux on it was quite a few years ago). It can
> run Knoppix 3.0 and above without problems though. I'm currently
> undecided between Debian and Puppy Linux - I don't want to spend hours
> fixing problems, and Puppy Linux looks like a new-ish distro that may
> require this. :-(  I don't know about Xubuntu.
>
> Has anyone here tried Puppy Linux or Xubuntu?
>
> Thanks, everyone.
>
> Rgds,
> Sujita
>
>
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