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

[David Morris]

Oh great thank you! This is exactly the sort of thing I need. I'll try out
a few and see if they might be suitable to replace my parents' Windows
computer

David

On 30 October 2017 at 15:15, Graham Whaley via Wylug-discuss <
wylug-discuss at wylug.org.uk> 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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