Linux recommendations for slow/old computer

I’ve an old Advent 7250 that has a similar spec to this.

It currently has 127MB Ram and is running Windows XP Home Sp3.

I’m wondering if there is a particular flavour of Linux that might be suitable for it?

Looking to use it to get up to speed on Linux really, and maybe as a lightweight .pdf reader etc.

Many thanks,
Craig

Thanks Darrell, can most probably set up a new partition and try things out that way. (and thanks for the comment about the site :slight_smile:

Hi John, does the audio utility on the top task bar find your audio device? If it does , does it correctly list it?

If not then open a terminal and type the following to tell us what it is

“lspci -vv | grep -i audio”

Wihout the quotes and post the results.

Nick

Many thanks for all the helpful tips and recommendations, will be off for an explore.

All the best,
Craig

I used Xubuntu on a really old laptop - don’t remember the spec - it couldn’t handle stock Ubuntu but Xubuntu worked great:
http://www.xubuntu.org/

Well spotted about the memory for Lubuntu Chris, installing the minimalist version of Lubuntu I guess would not have allowed Craig to experience it properly.

Chrome 5.0.375 here on Lucid Lynx - not experiencing any problems with the site.

SFN on Chrome is a bit flaky on OSX too.

Thanks chaps, will take a look.

Hi Craig

There is a lightweight Linux distribution called LUBUNTU, I use the full-fat version UBUNTU and like it very much.

Here’s a review and instruction page…

http://www.linuxcritic.com/lubuntu-linux-distribution-lxde-fans/

Cheers
Steve

PS. The Lubuntu site is currently down but ought to be up soon.

Craig,

I would of thought DSL linux would be a good choice. There are a lot of distro’s to choose from so take a look at…

http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions/

and

http://www.linux.org/dist/list.html

Hope this helps…

Bob