[Cialug] What is a good distro for an older laptop

Nathan Stien nathanism at gmail.com
Wed Sep 19 14:51:49 CDT 2007


On 9/19/07, Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:
> Xubuntu
> An Ubuntu derivative.
> It runs a small X system and really makes life liveable on a cramped system.

Seconded.  I typically do this on older machines myself, or something
near to it (Debian sid + XFCE).  I love me some KDE, but it's waaaaay
too fatty for an old box.

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Nathan P. Stien
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