[ale] Lightweight Distributions (was Getting Linux on an old laptop)

[Preston Boyington]

Brian Pitts wrote:
<snipped>
 >...By lightweight, I mean suitable for a Pentium II with 128MB of RAM.
> A PIII with 256MB can run the latest Ubuntu well enough for me.
>

Debian or maybe Slackware (can you tell i am biased?).  i have become 
quite fond of my FVWM-Crystal setup on my Debian Testing laptop and for 
a little more "eye candy" i _might_ boot into Enlightenment (E17), but 
99% of the time i am in FVWM-Crystal.

the only things i would add to a "standard" debian install would be:
xfce4-terminal (for transparent terminals)
mc
rxvt-unicode (so i can have a transparent QuakeConsole)
xarchiver
deluge-torrent
gqview
easytag (fav tagger)
acidrip (still my favorite)
grip (another favorite)
mp3blaster (because console mp3 players rock)
wavemon (lol, console wifi information)
kwifimanager (possibly)
thunar (am playing with it.  ROX is my current file manager of choice)

and all those "nasty" codecs and fonts...

heh, i also have debian running on several machines (133's w/32mb ram) 
using FluxBox.

other than this i would say:
Linux Mint (http://lm.ltv2.nutime.de/index.html)
Deli Linux (http://delili.lens.hl-users.com/)
might be interesting, and if you want something more Ubuntu specific 
then maybe:
ubuntulite (http://ubuntulite.tuxfamily.org/)
might be something to look at.

i know that there are some more, but i haven't had time to pull those...

Preston

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