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| Thread ID: 110275 | 2010-06-10 05:30:00 | Need a free very fast operating system!!! | quark (15122) | Press F1 |
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| 1108708 | 2010-06-10 05:30:00 | Hi, Unfortunately I have an old desktop computer with only a 800mhz CPU and only 256mg of Ram. I am running Windows XP at the moment but it is rather slow. So I need a free and fast operating system that I can install on the desktop computer because I have a rather empty wallet. If anyone has any ideas I would be most grateful Thanks |
quark (15122) | ||
| 1108709 | 2010-06-10 05:40:00 | I like puppy linux | nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 1108710 | 2010-06-10 05:42:00 | Hi, Unfortunately I have an old desktop computer with only a 800mhz CPU and only 256mg of Ram. I am running Windows XP at the moment but it is rather slow. So I need a free and fast operating system that I can install on the desktop computer because I have a rather empty wallet. If anyone has any ideas I would be most grateful Thanks What are you looking to use the PC for? Linux is the obvious choice, as nedkelly says, but there may be a particular distro that's suited to your needs, as you'll want to run as light an OS as possible with those specs. |
nofam (9009) | ||
| 1108711 | 2010-06-10 05:45:00 | Yes Puppy Linux is rather good. Any other suggestions? | quark (15122) | ||
| 1108712 | 2010-06-10 05:47:00 | The pc has all my music on it and i connect it to the net via a ethernet cable through my laptop which is using wireless. So the operating system will need to be able to stream music over a ethernet cable to my laptop. The laptop is running Windows 7 Ultimate. And thats all it will need to be able to do apart from casual browsing off the internet. Thanks |
quark (15122) | ||
| 1108713 | 2010-06-10 05:48:00 | i've run xp on smaller specs than that. it went ok | goodiesguy (15316) | ||
| 1108714 | 2010-06-10 05:50:00 | Yeah it runs ok. But I need something a bit faster. And it only needs to stream a bit of music and browse the net. Thanks |
quark (15122) | ||
| 1108715 | 2010-06-10 06:02:00 | RAM is limiting, I have a 600Mhz 320MB on Win2000. For those who wanna use the computer with some MS familiarity. I find RAM is a biggie when a webpage could eat up 32MB RAM. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1108716 | 2010-06-10 06:07:00 | Thats very true. Thats why I need a real fast operating system | quark (15122) | ||
| 1108717 | 2010-06-10 06:14:00 | A fast OS won't give you any more ram... although for basic web browing and streaming, 256MB is plenty. Some kind of small Linux distro will fit what you're after perfectly. |
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