I'd say Ubuntu as well, but if it still slower than you'd like take a look at Xubuntu (http://www.xubuntu.org/) which is based on Ubuntu but uses the much lighter Xfce desktop environment rather than Gnome or KDE. It is specifically designed for older computers.
-Jordan Mantha P.S. Hello RLUG, I didn't know you existed until a few weeks ago. I'm a PhD Physical Chemistry student at UNR and Ubuntu dev. Ryan Flowers wrote: > I have an older Dell Inspirion that just puked its Windows XP > installation. Surprise, surprise. I booted it a few months ago and it > was fine. Tried to boot it last week to make sure it was ready to take > on a trip to the bay area and it was dead. XP just reboots itself. > > Its a P3 1ghz with 384MB RAM and a 20GB hard drive. I run FC5 at home > and work, but I doubt it'd survive well on this older hardware. Any > suggestions for a distro it would be happy with? > > Thanks! > > Ryan Flowers > www.rykoala.org > > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
