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Which version for 128 mb ram?

Post by Troken » Fri Mar 04, 2011 8:40 am

I have an old laptop with only 128 mb ram. Which of the fluxbox editions would work? The latest versions require 256 mb ram. I don’t need the lates features, but it would be nice to use the laptop for easy tasks. Like playing music, edit a text document or read the news on the web.

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Re: Which version for 128 mb ram?

Post by JasonLG » Fri Mar 04, 2011 9:13 am

I have an old laptop with only 128 mb ram. Which of the fluxbox editions would work? The latest versions require 256 mb ram. I don’t need the lates features, but it would be nice to use the laptop for easy tasks. Like playing music, edit a text document or read the news on the web.

None of the version will work. 128MB isn’t enough RAM for a graphical installer. Even if you do manage to get the live CD to boot the installer will just crash. I recommend CrunchBang (http://crunchbanglinux.org/) for a machine with that low a specs. It’s light and it has an option for a text based installer.

Re: Which version for 128 mb ram?

Post by viking777 » Fri Mar 04, 2011 9:18 am

Mint fluxbox is great, but I wouldn’t fancy it on that amount of ram.

Crunchbang Lite or Slitaz would work.

Slitaz is the lighter, but Crunch Lite is debian based so easy to maintain/tinker with.

Re: Which version for 128 mb ram?

Post by kwisher » Fri Mar 04, 2011 9:25 am

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Re: Which version for 128 mb ram?

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Re: Which version for 128 mb ram?

Post by viking777 » Fri Mar 04, 2011 11:21 am

Puppy Linux is great, actually my favourite lightweight distro, but it has one problem if you install it, it runs as root all the time which is not really ideal. You can probably change it somehow, but I don’t know how.

Re: Which version for 128 mb ram?

Post by Kendall » Fri Mar 04, 2011 3:17 pm

I’ve gotten Mint 6 Fluxbox to run with 128 MB RAM, but not any of the newer editions (lowest I successfully tested with Mint 9 Fluxbox was 192 MB). Personally I’d look at antiX for something usable out of the box, or Arch if you don’t mind spending a day setting it up. When the Debian based Fluxbox edition hits, it’s possible it’ll run on 128 MB, but we won’t know until it’s ready for testing.

Re: Which version for 128 mb ram?

Post by tomast » Fri Mar 04, 2011 3:30 pm

I am running Mint 6 Gnome on an old
733 Mhz 128 Ram Dell computer and
it works pretty good once it finally boots up.
Just use it for internet access.

Trick is I installed it on a hard drive
in a much better computer , then swapped
the HD to the old dell.

Oh and I made a 512 MB swap for «pretend» memory.
Worked for Felicia so I guess it might work for
other distros also.

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Re: Which version for 128 mb ram?

Post by 900i » Fri Mar 04, 2011 3:32 pm

Re: Which version for 128 mb ram?

Post by Troken » Fri Mar 04, 2011 5:24 pm

Thank you all, so many answers! I have tested quite a lot of the lightweight distros out there, many of those you have mentioned. But I am not an advanced Linux user and really like to use as little tinkering or teminal as possible.

I’ve managed to install with graphical installer by swapping the HD to another computer (because the laptop lacks both CD-drive and USB-boot!), but still either a distro is too heavy or too unattractive. I had most success with Absolute Linux and TinyMe, but I do love Mint and always want to return to it. So I thought, better an old version than not at all. I might try the lightest version of Vector Linux. Or Crunchbang Lite.

Re: Which version for 128 mb ram?

Post by jeffreyC » Sat Mar 05, 2011 4:20 pm

CrunchBang Lite is obsolete, it was based on Ubuntu 9.04, CrunchBang has switched to Debian and no longer has a lite version

Linux Mint Fluxbox 5 would be your best choice but support for it does end next month.

Re: Which version for 128 mb ram?

Post by shengchieh » Tue Mar 08, 2011 3:21 pm

I know this is old thread (had to take care of my cellphone problem first). Give !# crunchbang a try.

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Which Linux Distro is suitable for 128 MB RAM

I am trying to introduce Linux to 7th Grade kids in my society.
I have got some very very old PC’s with 128MB RAM and some with 256 MB RAM. The processor speed is 1GHZ to 1.5GHZ for most of them.
Please tell me which Linux Distribution will be suitable for it.
I want to install them on Hard Disk & rather than booting from the USB drives every time.

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I have antiX on a 64Mb RAM, PIII 900odd MHz dell laptop. Works like a bomb. ( I am getting more ram one day. )

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For the computers with 256MB RAM you might, I stress might, be able to get away with using Lubuntu.

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Originally Posted by anirudhtomer

I am trying to introduce Linux to 7th Grade kids in my society.
I have got some very very old PC’s with 128MB RAM and some with 256 MB RAM. The processor speed is 1GHZ to 1.5GHZ for most of them.
Please tell me which Linux Distribution will be suitable for it.
I want to install them on Hard Disk & rather than booting from the USB drives every time.

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I am going to use antiX. Linux Rocks. (Rather —it Metals)

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Also look into the Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP). It allows you to run old computers as «thin clients» over the network. There are some incredible success stories of educators who have used it in schools.

AntiX is great too, so no argument from me there.

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