lightest possible weight ubuntu?

Steve Flynn anothermindbomb at gmail.com
Fri Nov 2 16:41:13 UTC 2007


On 02/11/2007, Michele <m.zarri at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/2/07, Tipton, Timothy <Timothy.Tipton at pxd.com> wrote:
> > >>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...
> >
> > I have a very similar old laptop and it runs Xubuntu perfectly. XFCE is
> > the Desktop environment and it is quite light, and easy to use. I highly
> > recommend it: http://xubuntu.org/
> >

Yup - I have (get this!) and A21m thinkpad with 64 meg of ram. It's
currently got Fiesty on it and does actually run xfce to a point where
it's almost usable. 128 meg would make it quite acceptable (or at
least it feels that way).

At the moment, it's CLI based only as I lack the patience of a saint.

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Steve
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