Plus it comes with a puppy already selected for your background.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Stanley C. Mortel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mortel@cyber-nos.com">mortel@cyber-nos.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">You could try Puppy Linux. It runs quite well on old hardware. Not as full featured a GUI, but thoroughly functional, and pretty (I think).<br>
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Stan<div class="im"><br>
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Bert W. Carrier Jr. wrote:<br>
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Hello folks,<br>
<br>
<br>
I am new to the group, and I have been using Ubuntu 9.10 for a few<br>
months now on my main box. I like it quite well, and I rarely boot to XP<br>
at all anymore. I tried Kubuntu, and did'nt care for it as it was slow<br>
and crashed often. I also am running Xubuntu on one of my P4 laptops,<br>
and it seems ok. <br>
My question is: I have a P3, 500mhz dinosaur laptop with 192mb RAM,<br>
and I want to run linux on it for word processing, email, and web<br>
surfing. I tried Xubuntu with no success, it's far too slow. I<br>
installed the base Ubuntu system from the alternate install CD, and<br>
installed IceWM, but I didn't care for that. I don't think I am ready<br>
to build my own version of a GUI. What is a good, prepackaged distro<br>
for a slow old beater? <br>
How about Fluxbox, has anyone tried it? Sorry if I come off like a<br>
total noob, but I guess if the shoe fits, right?<br>
<br>
Bert<br>
<br>
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