php_31337 Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 I'm thinking about getting a new PC so I can play games like Assassin's Creed. I have an old pc though that I have Ubuntu Edgy Eft on. Everything works fine (even my winmodem works) except its real laggy cuz my pc is old. I have a 633 Mhz Intel Celeron processor, 256mb of ram, 20 gig HD, and a cd r/w that isn't even recognized. What is the best version of Linux that will run fast and smooth with the lowest amount of resources? I'd like to have a desktop environment, but I mainly want to have linux so I stay a bit up to date with Unix and the shell. Maybe something equivalent to Windows 2000. Any ideas? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/88117-best-lightweight-linux-os/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 Any Linux distro will do, just don't install one of the bigger bloated desktops (ie; gnome or kde). Stick with something light weight (ie; xfce or fluxbox). Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/88117-best-lightweight-linux-os/#findComment-451052 Share on other sites More sharing options...
steviewdr Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 http://www.xubuntu.org/ will probably be the easiest for you to get working. -steve Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/88117-best-lightweight-linux-os/#findComment-451196 Share on other sites More sharing options...
laffin Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 Yep, for linux that is a lot of system. Even the feather distros (DSL,Puppy,FreeSCO,SmoothWall) it exceeds the minimum reqs. u can prolly use any standard linux distro, just dun load it down with a bunch daemons and other niceties. I was running a 700Mhz 10GB 256MB router with FreeSCO, I used it as a server rather than a workstation. but on that system was running apache/mysql/samba/firewall/ftp/telnet clients. it handled it very nicely (better than windows with apache/mysql/php) Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/88117-best-lightweight-linux-os/#findComment-451246 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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