What is the best distro for old hardware ?
gentoo
Defy old
>>54764096
how old? probably tinycore
damn small linux
Slackware. Even best for modern hardware, imo.
Xubuntu, I use it on my shitty nettop from 2008
debian can work on really old hardware. slackware too is another good os.
>>54764096
What are you thinking of running it on?
>>54764096
whatever it shipped with originally unless it's some destitute low-end piece of shit like a netbook
if it's P3 or later, Xubuntu/Debian are probably best
otherwise just use what it was made to do, a well manicured NT/2K install will beat the shit out of a superlight distro for actual usability any day of the week
>>54764112
An old pentium dual core
Chromium OS
>>54764139
It's for a friend he uses the laptop for browsing the web,ocassional word processing and CS:GO
>>54764205
Windows 10
>>54764096
my fucking throwaway windows 10 laptop runs with just 2 gigs of ram and a celeron 1.x ghz 2 core cpu with its IGP and only 32 gigs of space
there is zero hardware in 2016 that should possibly have an issue
>>54764205
lubuntu
>cs:go
>pentium
>>54764129
>the distribution itself with its related things will have any effect on how it's running
>not the choice of graphical applications
Even that won't make that much of a difference, especially not for things like browsing the internet.
what could you use if you needed an os that ran in less than 512 gb?
I need this for a VM in my nas
>>54764120
>2008
>old
reported for underage
>>54764106
How to install gentoo for novice people?
I use archlinux because ubuntu experience was atrocious.
I used architect linux because it automatically found my wifi driver.
I have an oldish laptop and compiling everything is just time wasting.
Is there prebuild package in gentoo?
>>54764243
>there is zero hardware in 2016 that should possibly have an issue
Tell that to my X120e with an E-240.
>>54764769
>I use archlinux because ubuntu experience was atrocious.
Why do arch users more often than not think that arch and ubuntu are the only distros?
>>54764800
http://distrowatch.com
>>54764219
Don't be like you're the guy he was replying to, Windows shill.
>>54764120
>Xubuntu, I use it on my shitty nettop from 2008
Looks aside, I've read LXDE is quite a bit lighter then XFCE. Have you tried Lubuntu?
>>54764816
Why are you posting this? It shows that debian is more relevant than buntu and that arch is less relevant than most commonly used distros.
Rank Distribution H.P.D*
1 Mint 3073=
2 Debian 2025>
3 Ubuntu 1839>
4 openSUSE 1318>
5 Manjaro 1154>
6 Fedora 1135=
7 CentOS 918>
8 Mageia 868<
9 Arch 86
>>54764096
Archlinux with Lxqt is probably what you need.
>>54764893
Arch is way too bloated to be used on old hardware. cross compiling a deblobbed kernel with only the stuff you need is a necessity.
>ctrl-f "puppy"
>0 results
>>54764315
>512 gb
Bunsenlabs
>>54764911
Sorry then.
So Lxqt Debian? I really like K project's softwares…
>>54764936
That would be a bit better, i don't know how minimal lxqt is, you could try but starting with a minimal window manager and a panel is probably better. dwm is light.
>>54764927
Puppy is mostly useless
>>54764119
This
>>54764193
You could run Vista on that.
>>54764967
Yeah, but that's a mess to configure, isn't it?
>>54764096
Lubuntu, work flawless on an amd athlon 64
>>54765012
Depends on how you like to configure stuff and how much you feel the need to configure it.
There is like a ton of different window managers that are almost all relatively lightweight so there should be something for you in the mix.
>>54764827
i was kidding :_:
>>54764970
Facts, unfortunately.
>>54765059
Oh, sorry then.
>>54765050
I'm not OP haha, sorry for the misunderstood. I'm going to run Gentoo with KDE on 16 GiB of RAM and a 1 TiB SSD pretty soon.
>ctr+f
>slitaz not found
This board is noob.
>>54765255
dead distro
>>54764264
Remember tosudo apt-get Compton
compton --vsync opengl-swp
>>54766251
Perfectly suits the hardware then!
>>54764096
Dragora
dragora.org
>>54764109
Not OP but:
HP Compaq 9105NX
2800MHz Sempron or something
1gb DDR
40gb HDD
Tried Debian Wheezy on it, everything good I installed LXDE, got super slow, sluggish.
Arch Linux
>>54764096
puppy:
100 MB of space — 256 MB if you want the version with a full OpenOffice office suite instead of more lightweight office applications. Puppy Linux is loaded to your computer’s RAM when you boot it up, so it will run entirely from RAM and be as snappy as possible. The computer’s old, slow hard drive won’t be a factor. You can even save your files and customizations to the USB drive containing Puppy Linux — there should be plenty of space considering how small Puppy Linux is.
Puppy Linux has very low minimum system requirements and requires only 128 MB of RAM, although at least 256 MB of RAM is recommended.
VectorLinux Light:
256 mb ram
barebone option:
Pentium 3 with 128 MB of memory.
Puppy and vectorlinux light use jwm window manager.
Lubuntu: 256 mb ram minimum, 512 recommended/
>>54764119
Slackware is the best for any hardware.
