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| Colin... |
 Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 8:05 pm |
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I have an older Toshiba Satellite 4010 CDT laptop with a 5 GB HDD and 32
MB os Ram. I am wondering if anyone can suggest a current version of
Linux that could be installed on it?
Thanks,
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| Nuno J. Silva... |
| Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 5:59 am |
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Colin <abc at (no spam) 123.com> writes:
Quote: I have an older Toshiba Satellite 4010 CDT laptop with a 5 GB HDD and 32
MB os Ram. I am wondering if anyone can suggest a current version of
Linux that could be installed on it?
Linux will run on it (unless there is some incompatibility), but
running programs which require "lots of memory" won't be fun. This
includes OpenOffice, some desktop environments, Firefox, and others.
Unless a distribution has no binaries for your processor (when
binary-based), you will probably be able to use it. The bottleneck
might be the installation environment - check how much memory is
required for that.
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| johnd... |
| Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 1:02 pm |
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You could try;
Tiny Core Linux - www.tinycorelinux.com or
DSL - www.damnsmalllinux.org/ or
Puppy Linux - www.puppylinux.org
TCL is only 10Mb in size
Colin wrote:
Quote: I have an older Toshiba Satellite 4010 CDT laptop with a 5 GB HDD and 32
MB os Ram. I am wondering if anyone can suggest a current version of
Linux that could be installed on it?
Thanks,
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| Jerry McBride... |
| Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 4:52 pm |
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Colin wrote:
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I have an older Toshiba Satellite 4010 CDT laptop with a 5 GB HDD and 32
MB os Ram. I am wondering if anyone can suggest a current version of
Linux that could be installed on it?
Thanks,
SQL
You could also try XUBUNTU...
Fact is though, a piece of hardware that old would have a terrible time
running any of the current modern OS's. But Xubuntu would probably be the
mos successfull of the lot.
Jerry
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| Scott Smith... |
| Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 8:50 pm |
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Colin wrote:
Quote: I have an older Toshiba Satellite 4010 CDT laptop with a 5 GB HDD and 32
MB os Ram. I am wondering if anyone can suggest a current version of
Linux that could be installed on it?
Thanks,
SQL
A little late but maybe this can help you. A while back I installed Linux on a
laptop with similar specs, which I used Arch Linux. Any distribution that lets
you fine tune what you can install would probably be good. Debian also comes to
mind as you can just install a base system and work from there. I'd avoid any
distribution that comes with everything by default such as Ubuntu and
derivatives. As a rule, if you have the option to just download the core or base
installation iso, go with that distro.
The bigger problem as stated before would be the packages you use. KDE and Gnome
will be out of the question. I went with Fluxbox with a decent amount of
success. Abiword was a good alternative for word processing as it uses a lot
less memory than OpenOffice. Web browsers will be the downfall if you want full
css support. I went with Opera at the time and it seemed to do all right. You'll
just have to be careful with what you install. Still expect it to be a little slow. |
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