[ubuntu-in] Looking for a small distro for low end comp

[Bhavani Shankar R]

On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Narendra Diwate
<narendra.diwate at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have an oppurtunity to help someone put to use an old desktop by
> installing Linux.
> The system is a Intel Celeron 1.3GHz system with 125 MB RAM and 80GB HDD on
> a VIA MB. It needs a OS that is light and can be installed with LiveUSB. I
> tried with AntiX but am unable to get it to boot due to a slow USB port (USB
> 1). The boot process is starting but at the time it looks for the squash FS
> its unable to find it. My guess is its because of a slow USB 1. Booting thru
> CD also failed for the same reason. The CD has AntiX i686 so i was not sure
> it will work, but the USB has 1486.
>
> Any pointers and advice.
>

Hello Narendra

You can take a look at Lubuntu (Light weight ubuntu) which runs on lxde

http://lubuntu.net/

System requirements are here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/ReleaseNotes/LucidLynx

Regards

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