lightest possible weight ubuntu?

[Christian Stefanescu]

Hi Michele,

I believe XUbuntu would run decent on that laptop. If it does not, fluxbox
is even faster, but as a steeper learning curve. Once you figure it out
though, there is no going back :)

On the other hand, you might want to try www.damnsmalllinux.org It is a
Linux distro that fits in 50MB on a CD, and can even be installed on the
hard-drive. Like Ubuntu, it is based on Debian.

Unfortunately, I don't think that Gnome (or KDE for that matter) can run
quick enough to be usable on that hardware (except if you would go for 512MB
RAM).

Good luck!
Chris

On 11/2/07, Michele <m.zarri at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have found a properly old laptop gathering dust in my house the other
> day and I was thinking of giving it to my sister in law who always wanted
> her own laptop.
> It's a Pentium III with 128MB RAM (soon 256 as I found someone selling a
> 128MB module on eBay), an ATI radeon M6 graphic card and 30GB hard disk...
> not exactly top of the range eh?
>
> I installed (net boot since the CD drive does not work) Gutsy but it is
> not usable, so I was wondering if there is a way to give this laptop a new
> lifeline by installing a very lightweight linux distro.
> Basically the laptop will be used to write documents, browsing and email.
> Provided I find a CD/DVD-ROM drive also watching movies would be nice, but
> that's aready an extra!
> Other issue: as I think my sister in law does not even know that linux
> exists, I would prefer to have gnome as desktop manager because that's the
> one I have always used so if she asks for help I know my way around.
>
> Any suggestion?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michele
>
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