On Wednesday 13 September 2006 15:58, "Claudio Paroli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, hope you can help... > I have a gorgeous little Vaio, one of the early Sony sub-notebooks which > works beautifully but it's let down by its operating system, W98SE, awfully > prone to crashing. > I only use the Vaio now for wireless comms incl. email and web surfing and > the odd productivity job. I thought I could install Linux and OpenOffice > and be very happy - except I would want a Linux distro that worked with a > PentiumIII 700 and only 128 Mb of (not upgradable) RAM. > Is there such a distro? Can you advise?
My laptop has a Mobile Pentium III 700MHz CPU running Xubuntu[1]. Originally it had 128MB RAM, and it ran passably well. Later, I bought some PC100 RAM from eBay, and now my machine is significantly more responsive with 512MB RAM. I would suggest that you invest in more RAM. Two lightweight distros I can recommend are Damn Small Linux (DSL) and Puppy. Puppy's creator has provided his own analysis of the state of the major mini-distros[2]. Puppy is amazingly fast and light, without any major corners being cut or features removed (unlike some other lightweight distros). DSL is based on Knoppix, which means that it has excellent hardware compatibility but also that it is chunkier than Puppy. You get a lot more in 50MB with Puppy than you get with DSL. [1] Xubuntu is Ubuntu with Xfce instead of GNOME. http://www.xubuntu.org/ [2] http://puppylinux.org/wikka/FaqPage (look for the question, "Which small distro is best?") -- Sridhar Dhanapalan {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://www.dhanapalan.com/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} Bring choice back to your computer. http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net
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