Re: Linux for older laptop

Dan Ritter <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.svlug
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 08:22:10AM -0800, Michael Eager wrote:
> Hi All --
> 
> I have an older laptop with a 32-bit Pentium M processor.  It has been 
> running Fedora 10 and I wanted to upgrade to something not quite so 
> ancient.  Fedora 26 KDE runs, but very slow.
> 
> There are lots of recommendations online for distros for old/slow 
> laptops.  I'm not an Ubuntu fan, but it seems that this is the most 
> common base.  I'm seeing online recommendations of Lubuntu or LXLE.
> 
> Does anyone have a recommendation or comments?

I have one like that talking to my stereo. Debian stable, 
XFCE, everything's pretty smooth.

If you can manage a small cheap SSD, that improves performance
immensely.

-dsr-
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