[Cialug] What is a good distro for an older laptop

[Matthew Nuzum]

On 9/19/07, Adk <adk at 52761.com> wrote:
> Xubuntu should work fine. But with 128M ram I don't think you can boot the
> 'live' cd. Suggest downloading the 'Alt' cd that has text install. If you
> can increase the ram to at least 192M, performace will be much better. At
> 128M you will swap a lot. I have done many low end installs.

Installing is definitely the tricky part with older computers. My
thinkpad won't boot from a 700M disk (it works fine on 655M CDRs, but
those are very tricky to find these days). I had to find a distro that
could boot from a floppy disk.
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