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Posted: Nov. 16 2005,02:59 QUOTE
I'm looking for a nice lightweight distro to install on a couple of old laptops I have. Is DSL a good choice for this? One of these machines is a 133MHz Pentium with maybe 96MB of RAM. How will I fare with DSL on this? Is there a better "lightweight" distribution for this purpose? Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks!
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Posted: Nov. 16 2005,03:22 QUOTE
DSL is ideal for such a system.

96MB of RAM is more than enough for DSL.
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Posted: Nov. 16 2005,03:44 QUOTE
Cool. Thanks for the feedback.
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Posted: Nov. 17 2005,23:49 QUOTE
I have a 133Mhz laptop with 32Meg RAM..it gets boggy at times...however with 96Meg it should smoke!!!

I would recommend a frugal HD install...you will be pleasantly pleased

Brian
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Posted: Nov. 18 2005,12:07 QUOTE
I have a 233MHz laptop with 48MB ram.  DSL was the best distro I could find for it, and I tried a few of the others.  You may like to try them out though - puppy and libranet looked like they might be good - but I felt that DSL wiped the floor with them for my laptop.
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