Linux on an old PC?

Question

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What Linux distribution can be put on an old PC?
Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80 Ghz
2.81 GHz 1Gb RAM
Purposes:
Surfing the web
Web development

Answer 1

In principle - any package. The main thing is that lightweight DE is available

Answer 2

Bunsenlabs
Very economical in terms of memory consumption. But localization into Russian is not yet 100%.
However, in any case, I would recommend finding an opportunity to increase the RAM.
Any modern browser will eat a lot of RAM. Even the so-called compact ones. It's all about browser engines. Without a modern engine, the browser does not display all sites correctly. And any modern engines - they want to eat a lot.

Answer 3

Any distro in which you understand, just do not put a gnome or kde there.
there's cinnamon if you want it faster, or xfce if you want it faster.
browser midori or iceweasel
and do not listen to these with Windows ..

Answer 4

Internet surfing

None, because the task involves the use of a browser, and 1GB of RAM is not enough for this.
Last resort Windows XP.

Answer 5

I have Xubuntu on this hardware. At startup, it takes + - 300MB of RAM.
It is quite possible to live for learning the web, it will not fly :) An idea like PHP / Web storm will slow down, but something like a sublime will be quite efficient.

Answer 6

And there is no way to throw memory? 1 gig is still a bit. You can put any with the kernel 2.6. The main thing is not to install thick DE - get by with the second gnome, TDE or something else similar in terms of release time.

Answer 7

For children, I put a computer written off in the office, there is some kind of dual-core 1.8 GHz stump with 1 GB of memory. In order not to suffer for a long time, I rolled the last runtu there (such a distribution, based on ubuntu) with XFCE. It worked, although not quickly. Rummaged through the bins and threw another 2GB.
As a result, everything suits, I have never got into the swap yet, 80% of the memory was used only when compiling ss sources. Tasks: surfing, fun with arduino and scratch, cartoons.

Answer 8

I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 with gnome-fallback on similar hardware and everything is fine =) So in general - any distro will do, not such an old computer.
But they are right about browsers - they eat memory immeasurably, the remaining 700 megabytes from the system will not be enough for them (and the whole gigabyte is not enough).