Walking in Light with Christ - Faith, Computing, Diary Articles & tips and tricks on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, mobile phone articles, religious related texts http://www.pc-freak.net/blog Installing Linux on old hardware PC. Few thoughs on Puppy and Xubuntu Linux Author : admin I needed a G/Linux distribution that will work fine on an old PC with hardware configuration: guest@xubuntu-desktop:~$ grep -i cpu /proc/cpuinfo; free -m; df -h cpu family : 6 cpu MHz : 797.613cpuid level : 2 total used free shared buffers cachedMem: 497 470 26 0 35 259-/+ buffers/cache: 176 321Swap: 1454 10 1444File System Size Used Free % Mounted on /dev/sda1 37G 4,3G 31G 13% / I've read a lot on the internet and come to the conclusion I have basicly two popular Linux distros as option to install on archaic x86 hardware: 1. Puppy Linux 2. Xubuntu Linux I first give Puppy Linux a try. It worked quite nice, but the interface was too old school and the desktop felt like a bit out-dated. Besides that many of the Puppy Linux shipped programs were not a mainstream programs available across most of the other Linux distributions. Many of the programs shipped with Puppy are great, but more suitable for a computer geek than for a Windows accustomed GUI user. 1 / 3 Walking in Light with Christ - Faith, Computing, Diary Articles & tips and tricks on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, mobile phone articles, religious related texts http://www.pc-freak.net/blog My opinion on Puppy (from what I've seen) is that its great distro for old school hardcore Linux users. Anyways its not suitable for absolutely "uniniated" users who encounter Linux for a first time. Secondly I installed Xubuntu. Most of the archaic hardware on the PC was detected during install time (a pleasently surprise). Xubunto works fast and Xfce menus opens "light fast" as on the old 800Mhz pc with 512 mem of ram. Generally the GUI worked quick and responsive. To conclude I liked Xubuntu a lot and I strongly recommend it to anyone who want to quickly roll on Linux on an old PC. 2 / 3 Walking in Light with Christ - Faith, Computing, Diary Articles & tips and tricks on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, mobile phone articles, religious related texts http://www.pc-freak.net/blog What impressed me most is the minimalistic look & feel and simplicity. I'm sure Debian will be working great on old hardware as well, however configuring it will be hell a lot of work. Thus I think Xubuntu is a good choice for people who want save some time in obscure configurations and easily have a neat Linux ready for desktop use. 3 / 3 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org).