I cannot recomment xubuntu because I have tried it on 256MB RAM and it was too slow even for simple works. The PC I tried was P4 so I am sure that it will be worse on P3.
On 12/3/10, fr3ak <[email protected]> wrote: > I think puppy nowadays comes with Xorg support and Xorg is heavy... Lubuntu > and Xubuntu would be heavy for you too... Try some system with XVesa > implementation... > > Try some xfce or lxde based XVesa system.... Try to neglect one with Gnome > or KDE... > > On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 4:19 PM, jilman amatya <[email protected]>wrote: > >> better to use puppy linux >> >> >> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 2:09 PM, fr3ak <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Lubuntu or Xubuntu would do great.. >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Bijay Rai >>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Dear all, >>>> >>>> One of my friends has dumped his old Pentium III in a corner of his >>>> shop. >>>> I want to give it a new life with a light-weight variant of Ubuntu. >>>> After >>>> googling for a while, I chose moonOS, Puppy Linux and Lubuntu as the >>>> prospective candidates. Now, I want you people (who have more knowledge >>>> about these OSes than me) to help me choose the right one. Or if you >>>> think >>>> there's another distro which better than these three, then please do >>>> suggest >>>> me. >>>> >>>> P.S.: The PC is an old PIII, 800MHz processor, 256 MB SDRAM, 80GB HDD. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Bijay Rai >>>> Dharan >>>> >>>> -- >>>> FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: >>>> [email protected]<foss-nepal%[email protected]> >>>> >>>> Mailing List Guidelines: >>>> http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines >>>> Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ >>> >>> >>> -- >>> FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] >>> http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: >>> [email protected]<foss-nepal%[email protected]> >>> >>> Mailing List Guidelines: >>> http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines >>> Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ >>> >> >> -- >> FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] >> http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: >> [email protected]<foss-nepal%[email protected]> >> >> Mailing List Guidelines: >> http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines >> Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ >> > > -- > FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > Mailing List Guidelines: > http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines > Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -- Sent from my mobile device Mobile Phone Offers <http://www.mobilephoneoffers101.com> Green Planet <http://www.greenplanetfan.org> Crazy Blogger <http://www.crazyblogger.info> -- FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Mailing List Guidelines: http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/
