What is the best distro for old hardware ?

What is the best distro for old hardware ?

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gentoo

Defy old

how old? probably tinycore

damn small linux

Slackware. Even best for modern hardware, imo.

Xubuntu, I use it on my shitty nettop from 2008

debian can work on really old hardware. slackware too is another good os.

What are you thinking of running it on?

whatever it shipped with originally unless it's some destitute low-end piece of shit like a netbook

if it's P3 or later, Xubuntu/Debian are probably best

otherwise just use what it was made to do, a well manicured NT/2K install will beat the shit out of a superlight distro for actual usability any day of the week

An old pentium dual core

Chromium OS

It's for a friend he uses the laptop for browsing the web,ocassional word processing and CS:GO

Windows 10

my fucking throwaway windows 10 laptop runs with just 2 gigs of ram and a celeron 1.x ghz 2 core cpu with its IGP and only 32 gigs of space

there is zero hardware in 2016 that should possibly have an issue

lubuntu
>cs:go
>pentium

>the distribution itself with its related things will have any effect on how it's running
>not the choice of graphical applications

Even that won't make that much of a difference, especially not for things like browsing the internet.

what could you use if you needed an os that ran in less than 512 gb?

I need this for a VM in my nas

>2008
>old
reported for underage

How to install gentoo for novice people?
I use archlinux because ubuntu experience was atrocious.
I used architect linux because it automatically found my wifi driver.

I have an oldish laptop and compiling everything is just time wasting.
Is there prebuild package in gentoo?

>there is zero hardware in 2016 that should possibly have an issue
Tell that to my X120e with an E-240.

>I use archlinux because ubuntu experience was atrocious.
Why do arch users more often than not think that arch and ubuntu are the only distros?

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Don't be like you're the guy he was replying to, Windows shill.

>Xubuntu, I use it on my shitty nettop from 2008
Looks aside, I've read LXDE is quite a bit lighter then XFCE. Have you tried Lubuntu?

Why are you posting this? It shows that debian is more relevant than buntu and that arch is less relevant than most commonly used distros.
Rank Distribution H.P.D*
1 Mint 3073=
2 Debian 2025>
3 Ubuntu 1839>
4 openSUSE 1318>
5 Manjaro 1154>
6 Fedora 1135=
7 CentOS 918>
8 Mageia 868<
9 Arch 86

Archlinux with Lxqt is probably what you need.

Arch is way too bloated to be used on old hardware. cross compiling a deblobbed kernel with only the stuff you need is a necessity.

>ctrl-f "puppy"
>0 results

>512 gb
Bunsenlabs

Sorry then.

So Lxqt Debian? I really like K project's softwares…

That would be a bit better, i don't know how minimal lxqt is, you could try but starting with a minimal window manager and a panel is probably better. dwm is light.

Puppy is mostly useless

This

You could run Vista on that.

Yeah, but that's a mess to configure, isn't it?

Lubuntu, work flawless on an amd athlon 64

Depends on how you like to configure stuff and how much you feel the need to configure it.
There is like a ton of different window managers that are almost all relatively lightweight so there should be something for you in the mix.

i was kidding :_:

Facts, unfortunately.

Oh, sorry then.

I'm not OP haha, sorry for the misunderstood. I'm going to run Gentoo with KDE on 16 GiB of RAM and a 1 TiB SSD pretty soon.

>ctr+f
>slitaz not found

This board is noob.

dead distro

Remember to
sudo apt-get Compton
compton --vsync opengl-swp

Perfectly suits the hardware then!

Dragora
dragora.org

Not OP but:

HP Compaq 9105NX
2800MHz Sempron or something
1gb DDR
40gb HDD

Tried Debian Wheezy on it, everything good I installed LXDE, got super slow, sluggish.

Arch Linux

puppy:
100 MB of space — 256 MB if you want the version with a full OpenOffice office suite instead of more lightweight office applications. Puppy Linux is loaded to your computer’s RAM when you boot it up, so it will run entirely from RAM and be as snappy as possible. The computer’s old, slow hard drive won’t be a factor. You can even save your files and customizations to the USB drive containing Puppy Linux — there should be plenty of space considering how small Puppy Linux is.

Puppy Linux has very low minimum system requirements and requires only 128 MB of RAM, although at least 256 MB of RAM is recommended.
VectorLinux Light:
256 mb ram
barebone option:
Pentium 3 with 128 MB of memory.
Puppy and vectorlinux light use jwm window manager.
Lubuntu: 256 mb ram minimum, 512 recommended/

Slackware is the best for any hardware.