Linux suggestion for PIII Tualatin 1.2 w/1gig Ram

[Corny]

if you want ubuntu, the ubuntu netbook remix might still run reasonably good on it.

if not i would go for some distro with a XFCE desktop

 

[T-Rexx]

Definitely Puppy Linux

If you want something blazingly fast on your PIII, then go with Damn Small Linux. The entire distro is just 50 MB, including a suite of office applications, web browsers, photo editors, and games! It's amazing.

You might also try Lubuntu (= "light ubuntu," although personallly, I'm not a fan of the LXDE desktop).


But I'm surprised to see a right-winger considering Linux. We're a bunch of communists, you know.

"Linux sort of springs organically from the earth. And it had, you know, the characteristics of communism that people love so very, very much about it. That is, it's free."

-Steve Ballmer, at a meeting of financial analysts, Seattle, 2000

 

[Michiko]

Windows XP................................... lol.

Just kidding. Regular Ubuntu should run fine.

 

[looseliam]

^^ I have older distros of ubuntu somewhere if you need.

 

[PlasticMatt]

I'd be inclined to recommend Arch Linux, as it's really really lightweight, but then again, it's pretty hard to recommend to anyone who isn't interested in tweaking their setup and making their box *just* (and not almost) as they want it.

But yeah, you definitely could go for either Ubuntu Netbook Remix or Xubuntu. I prefer Xubuntu as I'm such a Xfce fanboy, heh. Anyway, either of those should work just fine as the box you'd run it on falls somewhat in the netbook range when it comes to specs.

 

[T-Rexx]

I had regular Ubuntu installed on a PIII until recently.

It was sluggish, but I managed to tolerate it for most of the past year.

I don't personally see much difference between regular Ubuntu and Xubuntu, in terms of speed.

If the computer has at least 128 MB RAM, Puppy Linux will load everything to RAM. That enables Puppy to run much faster than just about any other OS available.

 

[Michiko]

I had regular Ubuntu installed on a PIII until recently.

It was sluggish, but I managed to tolerate it for most of the past year.

I don't personally see much difference between regular Ubuntu and Xubuntu, in terms of speed.

If the computer has at least 128 MB RAM, Puppy Linux will load everything to RAM. That enables Puppy to run much faster than just about any other OS available.

Puppy Linux is fugly... I know, shame on me, but I tend to prefer prettier things, such as Mac OS X Tiger instead of any Linux distro past or present, hehe. Ubuntu is the better looking one, out of all the Linux distros... I'm a designer, what can I say.

 

[T-Rexx]

^ Yes, but one pays a price for beauty in the form of software bloat. Especially for a lesser system, it does not always pay to go with the latest in desktop design.

But Puppy is actually quite good-looking, IMHO. And Ubuntu has hardly been a beauty queen these past few years, with the orange and brown themes!