Linux Distro For Older PC??

[seamorton]

Most all of the older desktop PC's, I'm trying to revive, are equipped with the DDR & DDR2 Ram & AMD processors 32bit. Not sure if any of our members can recall but when Microsoft discontinued 98SE Xandros sent me an offer to buy their Linux version Xandros advertised similar to windows 98se OS. Used it for a while but not it is no longer active, if I have that right?

Possibly looking to set up an older desktop for Linux and try to become more proficient in learning the OS. Would like Our Forums input and suggestions on what linux distro to use & how to download & setup the HD for it. Also while considering this. Possible some of the advantages & trade offs of the system.

Hope that this information will help? Appreciate any an all replies, input & suggestions that you feel will be helpful. Thank you very much! SM USAF 62-66

 

[lxskllr]

Lubuntu would be a solid choice. Relatively light, but still user friendly and a "normal" GNU/Linux desktop. There's distros that are far lighter, but are somewhat non standard, and not as user friendly. They wouldn't give a "normal" experience.

 

[LPCTech]

LXLE. Its also ubuntu/lxde based and looks nice.

http://distrowatch.com/

 

[jae]

Lubuntu would be a solid choice. Relatively light, but still user friendly and a "normal" GNU/Linux desktop. There's distros that are far lighter, but are somewhat non standard, and not as user friendly. They wouldn't give a "normal" experience.

Whatever happened to the lxde and razor-qt project? Did it fold?

 

[lxskllr]

Whatever happened to the lxde and razor-qt project? Did it fold?

No, it looks like they're still going. It's lxqt, and wikipedia says the last release was in november.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LXQt

I had kind of forgotten about it. I might end up going that way depending on what happens with xfce, and the gtk3 port. gtk is a moving target anymore, and I'm not sure a small team like xfce can keep up with gnome's nonsense.