[colug-432] Expiration Date

[Dan Kaiser]

I'll +1 Mike's recommendation for minimalism for older hardware.  I liked
CrunchBang, although it only has a window manager rather than a full
desktop environment.  It takes a little while to get used to, but it was
very fast.  Based on Debian, so extremely stable as well.

-Dan

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a
habit." - Aristotle

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Mike Plemmons <mikeplemmons at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Depending on how much you want to play you could check out Slackware or,
> if you want to get even more manual, Arch or Gentoo.  They all may be able
> to run rather well on holder hardware.
>
> I may be mistaken but I believe the distros you list use newer versions of
> GNOME which just about require OpenGL.  This means potentially newer video
> cards.  You could also try the Xfce versions and see if they provide what
> you want.
> On Jun 16, 2015 3:49 PM, "tom" <thomas.w.cranston at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> After fooling around with a Dell Dimension 4550, and a Dell Optiplex
>> 210L, I am wondering how soon I will not be able to run a current and up
>> to date Linux Distro such as Ubuntu, Mint,or Fedora on it. I could
>> probably run Puppy or DSL, but I find them to be an option of last
>> resort. I am currently running a Dell Inspiron 1520 Pentium Dual Core in
>> it. LinuxMint 17 Cinnamon LTS. Pretty much does anything I need to do
>> such as browser with many tabs open and YouTube. Plays DVD's quite well.
>> I may consider more RAM or a Dual Core Duo upgrade If that's compatible
>> with my chipset and BIOS ver, but not if the laptop will be antiquated
>> in the near future.
>>
>> Tom
>>
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