What distribution kit to put on the old laptop?

YKapodast2012-08-11 01:08:33

linux

YKapodast, 2012-08-11 01:08:33

I gave my eight-year-old sister an old laptop for experiments (mobile sempron 1.6, 512 DDR-1 of which 64 MB are allocated for video)

. it's just monstrously slow on such junk, and I don't want to install any win2000 or ubuntu of the 2003 model at all.

Advise a light, fast distribution kit that is pleasant in appearance, which can function normally)
It is necessary to pull Internet surfing, simple flash games and online cartoons.

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Dmitry Serzhenko, 2012-08-11
@Serzhenko

Crunchbang can offer.

Sergey, 2012-08-11
@zenden2k

Do not torment your sister, install Windows XP, not a single Linux will run faster on such hardware, except perhaps some terribly castrated and miserable distribution kit.

Yuri Kulyash, 2012-08-11
@rekzi

There are links to distributions here.

dgeliko, 2012-08-11
@dgeliko

I'll just leave this here.
www.damnsmalllinux.org/

Oleg Karnaukhov, 2012-08-11
@BupycNet

Leave the same ubuntu and install lxde or xfce there. Browser use firefox - my chrome survives everything. But even if FF starts 30 large tabs, it still doesn’t eat enough, although now it eats 500 MB from me ... strangely, it apparently adapts to memory. Online cartoons in flash are unlikely to pull ... although the sempron will probably be faster than my netbook. And the video there probably still holds the acceleration?

Vorchun, 2012-08-11
@Vorchun

try lxde. KDE, Gnome and even Xfce eat up resources.
I have a C-1.5M laptop, ddr2 1gb I had Mint with gnome 3. I didn't fly, but it was quite tolerable. For the sake of interest, I installed kubuntu, xubuntu. A little faster.
But lubuntu.net/ is even nothing.
Ubuntu is almost standard. This is not for the chiller. Yes, there are many distributions, but Ubuntu has a large community. Many sites are dedicated to her. The software appears quickly. etc.
PS: if it’s a completely ancient laptop, then it makes sense to look at www.linux-laptop.net/
PS: due to the requirements for the main work, I switched to win7 at home. Connected too much. Not so pretty, but very smart

Alx, 2012-08-11
@gx2

"- How to install an old distribution kit on a laptop?
Master Yoda"
And, in the case of freebsd 5-6, or RedHat 7-9 (there are Russian cirillyc editions).

markmariner, 2012-08-11
@markmariner

I installed Lubuntu on a laptop of a similar configuration to a friend. Friend is happy. ;)

Konstantin Kitmanov, 2012-08-11
@k12th

Lubuntu (well, or another distro with LXDE).
I put it on a laptop with 533 Celeron and 256 memory. I can’t say that it’s completely comfortable - but it’s quite possible to live and surf the Internet. And at 1.6GHz it will definitely be great.

ValdikSS, 2012-08-11
@ValdikSS

And try fuduntu, it's just for laptops.

Deffe, 2012-08-11
@Deffe

Anyone, oddly enough. With light surroundings. Just don't chase new versions too much, you don't need support for new hardware. Debian 5.6 will do just fine, a classic for this task.

SergeiMartynov, 2012-08-11
@SergeiMartynov

Well, there's always Windows XP. You can try Android x86 or Ubuntu 12.04 and xfce shell on top.