Linux suggestion for an old notebook.

[ArisVer]

Pentium III 1GHz, 384MB Ram, 8MB Graphics, 20GB Hard Disk.

To be used mainly for browsing and taking notes.

 

[dennilfloss]

I use TinyMe Linux on a Thinkpad A21e: Celeron 600, 256MB RAM, 4MB Rage Mobility videocard). Works very well. Here's my desktop.

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=tinyme

Other people screenshots:

http://i43.tinypic.com/2crpljp.png
http://img165.imageshack.us/i/tinymerf3.jpg/
http://savepic.ru/602640.png
http://img165.imageshack.us/i/tinymerf3.jpg/
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/4051/desktop2uu8.jpg
http://img171.imageshack.us/f/hodeskrc4.png/

Review: http://www.linux.com/archive/articles/149918

It's a minimalist distro. Version I used (here are a download link & screenshot)

http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=05233
http://linux.wikia.com/index.php?title=TinyMe&image=TinyME-png

was based on PCLinuxOS. I haven't upgraded it yet as this was the latest final release. The package management was very good.

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=pclinuxos

 

[ArisVer]

I have tried tinycore and slitaz on my desktop and i could not connect to the internet. I am very new to linux and do not know the commands. I will try again with these two (slitaz loads with 50MB ram). I was thinking of xubuntu but maybe is too much for it. Tinyme did not load at all on the desktop.

 

[Paperlantern]

Puppy is a good one too, though its wireless support is pretty craptastic, most machines that you are putting it on wouldnt have Wireless anyway. I put it on an old Gateway PIII 600 with 384MB of RAM and it would boot up to about 85MB used. Hard wire NIC and everything else worked right out of the box, just had a hard time getting a PCMCIA wireless card to work, and stay working (it did work, just not consistently). bit that could have just been the one i was using, others may be a little easier, who knows.

Puppy would SCREAM on that machine. The PIII 600 i had it on had no problem running Firefox with a youtube video in it while surfing other pages at the same time... no stutter.

 

[lxskllr]

SliTaz and Puppy are my 2 choices. Is your internet wired, or wireless?

 

[pelikan]

+1 for Puppy!

 

[ArisVer]

Hi all.
The notebook is currently on WinXP. I use Unetbootin. Puppy did not load. SliTaz runs but i could not connect (wireless, maybe my settings, maybe a driver issue). I will try TinyMe as well later on.