My computer is pretty old. It has a 37GB Hard Drive, 512Mb RAM, and an AMD Athlon XP2500 519MHz CPU. I am running windows XP right now and have used up about half of the Hard Drive. I have burned several Linux Live CD distros and they were all pretty slow. I tried DSL and Puppy Linux but I didn’t like them. I want to try and partition my hard drive and do a dual boot. What linux distro would run well on my laptop? Ubuntu? Fedora? Mandriva? Or any other distro?
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i have a 900 mhz dell poweredge 500sc with 512 ram 1 8 gb hd and 1 12gb hd i also have a ati radeon 7000 64mb video card and a wireless usb card.. so my question is should i stay with xp ? or go to a linux based os or downgrade the windows… i use the comp for writing messaging web surfing and video converting for transfer to my psp i have xubuntu and i like the feel of the live cd but what would be the best for me and my pc i also like to play some online browser games.. ty best answer 5 – 10 
and the wireless is wg111t sry for long stuff:( thanks ralph
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I have an old computer with Pentium II 400MHz, 254MB RAM (two 128 MB DDR1 133MHz memory sticks). The max hard drive I can use is 20GB. I have been using Win95 for the longest time and only switched to Vista about a year ago. I have some experience with java programing and doing most windows tasks but I’ll admit that I never worked with DOS or command prompts before (except perhaps when formating but that’s not complicated)
I was interested in switching to Linux but I’m overwhelmed with options.
I need an OS capable of running Firefox (or a browser capable of loading java applets), Open Office (I am not interested in word editors only but I need to make presentations as well so just using Abiword is not enough) and if need be some mp3s (not so much but it would be nice).
I’ve tried PuppyLinux which is light but I wanted something more powerful yet not to demanding on resources.
Last point is that I would like to be able to run the OS as a live CD before installing it.
Thanks.
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I have this really old HP Pavilion (7360). It has 72 or 75 mb of ram, 266mhz MMX processor, and a 5gig hard drive. I was thinking of a version of Ubuntu for it, but would it run too slow? I already tried DSL linux, with its 1x(something around that speed) CD drive the live CD didn’t run well. If there are other versions that would work good please tell me. P.S. I used to have 98 on it, but I was fooling around with DSL linux and deleted the windows partition.
Well I tried Xubuntu 6.06.1 and Slitaz and neither worked! Slitaz just stayed at a screen, and Xubuntu found errors and didn’t do any thing els.
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I have an extremely old pentium 3 550mhz processor, with 384mbs of ram and a 20 gig hard drive. I dont know what the smallest linux that doesnt run off a live cd is. I have used slax portable linux but i want a permanently installed os (preferably with a kde interface and maybe looks like ubuntu) and I dont want to permanenly install slax becuase it still functions as a live cd, just running from the hard drive.
So the bottom line is, I need a list of small sized linux OS’s with links to a download. remember, I am choosing a best answer.
Thanks!!
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