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| 1283780 | 2012-06-25 08:34:00 | I have this really, really old laptop. Pentium 3, 32 gb hdd, 1/4 gb ram. Yea I'm trying to make it run linux, not bothering to dual boot or anything. Being a complete noob to linux, I'm having trouble finding a acceptable distro to download, acceptable being a fully fledged distro that will run on such an old pc. Preferably it would be a .exe in an iso, just as its so old it wouldn't boot from an iso the last time I tried it. Any Ideas on a good distro plus download link? Thanks |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1283781 | 2012-06-25 08:42:00 | Hey there, Surely the Ubuntu install should work? I have installed it on some pretty crappy old machines, and they have run like a dream. |
adslgeek (14687) | ||
| 1283782 | 2012-06-25 09:16:00 | I could only find an iso, and its so old it needs a .exe as the boot options aren't there. | Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1283783 | 2012-06-25 09:25:00 | Preferably it would be a .exe in an iso, just as its so old it wouldn't boot from an iso the last time I tried it. An ISO you need to burn to a CD. Does it have a CD drive? If not you will want one on USB. .EXE is a Windows program. You can run an .exe in Linux but only with the help of Wine or similar. I wouldn't even try to run Ubuntu on that. Some distros you could try are PCLinuxOS MiniMe, Damn Small Linux, Lubuntu, Puppy Linux, Tiny Core Linux. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1283784 | 2012-06-25 09:28:00 | Yeah Ubuntu is probably too heavy for that thing. I would try Xubuntu/Lubuntu/Puppy. | sahilcc7 (15483) | ||
| 1283785 | 2012-06-25 09:31:00 | I can't boot from usb, the bios doesn't have that option. Sigh. I'll try lubuntu tomorrow, and let you know how I get on. |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1283786 | 2012-06-25 09:51:00 | Puppy or if you can still find it Damn small linux both are made for older hardware and have a tiny installed size | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1283787 | 2012-06-26 04:23:00 | KDE3 runs very well on older hardware, it will be fine on that machine. Get an older version of a distro which still has KDE3 as the default desktop (slackware 12.2 for instance) - will be fine | forrest44 (754) | ||
| 1283788 | 2012-06-26 10:53:00 | Rather than going for an older version IMO it is better to use a new distro with a light desktop. See www.makeuseof.com . |
johnd (85) | ||
| 1283789 | 2012-06-26 12:00:00 | I would go with Lubuntu, it should run pretty well. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
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