[Wylug-discuss] Lightweight (old hardware) distros....

John Robert Hudson j.r.hudson at virginmedia.com
Mon Oct 30 17:59:17 UTC 2017


Hi

I use the minino Artabros distro on my 2000 computer which has 250MB of RAM. 
Works very well. See https://minino.galpon.org/en/descargas

The forums are in Spanish but if you put up a query in English, they will 
reply in English.

John

On Monday, 30 October 2017 15:15:01 GMT Graham Whaley via Wylug-discuss wrote:
> iirc, was somebody (David?) asking about lightweight distros to maybe
> support old hardware (I'm thinking more old as in short on grunt and
> resource, rather than deprecated architectures and instruction sets
> like 386 and 586 etc.).
> This just fell across my intray:
> https://itsfoss.com/lightweight-linux-beginners/
> 
> The one I was thinking of in the pub was Lubuntu (the last lightweight
> one I tried - worked fine a year or two back). The article lists 10
> distros - the 'lightest' it says being peppermint...
> 
> cheers,
>   Graham
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