<div dir="ltr">I'm running Lubuntu on a IBM Thinkpad, P4 with 512 Mb of RAM. Runs very well for Internet browsing, word processing, playing music and even doing some YouTube streaming at lower resolutions. My daughter uses it for schoolwork on the Time4Learning web site using Chrome.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 5:12 PM, tom <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomas.w.cranston@gmail.com" target="_blank">thomas.w.cranston@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Don't Know. P4 500MB RAM. Was running XP PRO on 6GB HDD. Now has 60
GB HDD. RAM will be increased to 1 GB.<div><div class="h5"><br>
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<div>I've recently offered to install Linux on a friend's ailing
laptop from 2005ish. I was going to target a smaller/minimal
distro, most likely Crunchbang, but I'm interested in hearing
what you find if you compare LM13 vs. LM16.<br>
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In answer to your initial question, I typically search for
minimum and recommended specs for distros to see if my old
hardware is up to snuff. This is a frequently asked question on
many Linux formums. <a href="http://www.maketecheasier.com/distros-for-old-computers/" target="_blank">Here
is a recent article</a> listing some of the better distros for
older and/or low power machines.<br>
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<div>-Dan<br>
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not
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<div dir="ltr">Great point Eric. Lots of people out
there don't want to deal with the 6 months upgrade
cycle and so a long term support edition might work
better for them. In terms of resources, I thought
each web site gave an indication of what resources
would be needed for each distro. Imagine a Google
search would offer some suggestions too.
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<div>I am trying to not be on the 6 months cycle by
trying out Manjaro Linux. Pretty user friendly
and they are a rolling release and my two upgrades
so far have been successful with no glitches. </div>
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<div>I also like that in my Gnome 3.10 I found under
the Gnome Tweaks setting a way to add a weather
indicator to my panel and linked it to the Bolton
Field weather station. Working fine. Since I
can't thank Gnome directly, or could not find a
way, thanks to the minds that created that tweak
feature to make improvements and they grow into
their Gnome 3 vision.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Note that the other
difference between Linux Mint 13 and 16
besides resource use is that 13 will be
supported until April 2017[1] while 16
will only be supported until July of this
year.
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<div>Don't know how long they will be
using the laptop, or how much upgrading
they will want or need to do, but
possibly a consideration.</div>
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<div>[1] <a href="http://www.linuxmint.com/oldreleases.php" target="_blank">http://www.linuxmint.com/oldreleases.php</a></div>
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24, 2014 at 12:30 PM, tom <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomas.w.cranston@gmail.com" target="_blank">thomas.w.cranston@gmail.com</a>></span>
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determine how much resources a
Distro uses. Posted online?<br>
Determine from command line?<br>
<br>
I am installing Linux on an old
laptop for someone. They asked for<br>
LinuxMInt 13 Maya as they think it
will use less resources than<br>
LinuxMint 16. I want to verify
that. I think 16 would be better
if it<br>
does not hog a lot more resources.<br>
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I did install LinuxMint16xfce, but
seemed rather limited.<br>
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