[mdlug] Lightweight desktop distribution recommendation

Garry Stahl tesral at comcast.net
Thu Jul 26 18:25:31 EDT 2007


Michael ORourke wrote:
> Good suggestions... thanks to everyone that replied.
>
> I don't want the hassle of roll-your-own distribution, or something I need 
> to compile on the box.  Just something I can install easily and that just 
> "works".  The hardware is a 900MHz Celeron mini-desktop with 512MB and a 
> 20GB hard drive.
> So far, I'm pretty happy with Puppy Linux installed to the hard drive. 
> Which looks like this is going to be a good solution.
>   

I'm running SuSE 9.2 on a 500mhz with 320ram.  That's plenty of machine
for most distros.  I run full KDE and the works. 

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