can you recomend me a lightweight Linux distribution.

Jack Jackson jackson.linux at gmail.com
Wed Aug 24 00:22:08 UTC 2005


What's the state of Libranet? Deb based very lightweight linux which was 
fast as I had hoped on a hopeless laptop.

I think it costs something though....

John Conover wrote:
> Serg Belokamen writes:
> 
>>Sounds like  an old machine... "I don't want to it to be slow" - get a
>>new laptop.
>>
>>You can run it as a server, but as a desktop machine I dont think it
>>will be fast at all.
>>
>>On 24/08/05, sahutoglu sonmez <sahutsonmez at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>I have an old Dell laptop that has 128 mb ram and 3GB
>>>harddisk. I would like to have Latex, matlab, and
>>>mathematica on it. I don't want to it to be slow. So I
>>>would like something lightweight. Since I am a newbie
>>>I would like to be able to install programmes like in
>>>Ubuntu using something like synaptic.
>>>Can anyone recomend me a distribution.
>>>Thanks in advance.
>>>
> 
> 
> http://www.knoppix.net/ might work, but Sahutoglu is right-it might be
> slow. I use mostly Ubuntu, but have knoppix running on a 128MB, 400
> MHz., 2 Gig. HD Pentium machine, and it runs adaquately fast as a
> desktop. But I use fvwm or icewm instead of gnome or kde to save
> memory foot print, too.
> 
> 	John
> 




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