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Low Resource Linux

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stelleg151

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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
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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