Low Resource Linux

[stelleg151]

I have an old laptop that I want to install linux on to learn my way around Linux, eventually I hope to move more and more to Linux.

For this laptop, I think there are only like 32 megs of ram, and a 4gb HD or something rediculous like that.

I just want web-browsing capabilities, wordprocessing, and a movie player.

Any suggestions on a low-resource linux to use?

Thanks

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Damn Small Linux worked well on my 16Megs of ram, 300MHz processor, lappy. You could probably also do Ubuntu, although DSL would probably be faster.

 

[stelleg151]

Thanks man, Ill check it out.

 

[wpshooter]

I tried Ubuntu on a laptop with 64mb memory and it would NOT work.

 

[silverpig]

Any distro should work so long as you us a minimal UI. KDE and Gnome are not recommended... IceWM or FVWM should work fine though.

 

[nweaver]

I had gentoo + xfce4 on a p3 500, but it also had 380somthing megs of ram.

I would not do Ubuntu with less then 256.

 

[comphollic]

I also vote for Damn Small Linux ...
VectorLinux might work in that machine as well...

 

[MadRat]

I've gotten IceWM to work relatively snappy on a P120 laptop using only 24MB of RAM and a 1GB h/d. Its great for the old hardware.

 

[timswim78]

VectorLinux is designed specifically for older/slower hardware:
http://www.vectorlinux.com/

Some versions only require 16MB of RAM and a Pentium Processor. I ran it on a P166 with 48MB, and it was great.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis.../docs/miscellaneous/version_table.html