can you recomend me a lightweight Linux distribution.

Kapre ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Wed Aug 24 00:35:14 UTC 2005


sahutoglu sonmez 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. 
> 
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sahotoglu - try using DSL (Damn Small Linux). With your notebook
specs, 50 MB of OS wouldn't hurt that much.


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