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sjau
16th November 2006, 14:35
Hiya

a friend of mine has an old Vaio notebook with a 6 GB HDD, 366 Mhz Pentium II processor and 64 MB ram.
Currently there's a Win98 installed.

What can you recommend?

Xubuntu?
DamnSmallLinux?
...?

Looking for input :)
Hans
16th November 2006, 15:10
I've a nice experience with DreamLinux, which runs extremely fast and looks nice! http://www.dreamlinux.com.br/english/index.html

:)
sjau
16th November 2006, 19:57
I'll also have a look at that :) thx :)
falko
17th November 2006, 15:38
Maybe PC-BSD? FreeBSD uses very few resources. :)
sjau
17th November 2006, 15:55
well, in the end there should be an office suit on it (preferably OOo) and a browser (preferably FF)
I know, another 64mb of ram will do miracles :(
another difficulty is the notebook does not have an integrated lan port and I'm trying to get my old Level 1 pcmcia card running... xubuntu does recognize it but the install process "stops" at configuring anthy... whatever that is...
I'm not sure if debian will recognize it... I thought maybe a debian install with flushbox could work.
falko
18th November 2006, 15:40
Maybe Knoppix is worth a try as it always comes with the newest and most drivers. Knoppix is not oly a Live-CD, it can also be installed to the hard disk. But I'm not sure how resource-hungry it is.
mystix
18th November 2006, 22:02
Hiya

a friend of mine has an old Vaio notebook with a 6 GB HDD, 366 Mhz Pentium II processor and 64 MB ram.
Currently there's a Win98 installed.


I'm running DamnsmallLinux on my Laptop with PIII 366mhz and 196MB RAM. DSL works fine and fast but I think with only 64MB RAM DeLi Linux will work better.
http://delili.lens.hl-users.com/

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Mystix