Good distribution for a 8 year old netbook

[linuxgnuru]

So I found this netbook for $20 (Acer aspire) with 1GB ram, Atom N455 1.6Ghz with an awesome 1024×600 display. Ubuntu, Fedora, all suck donkey nuts. Other than slackware / arch, are there any light weight distributions out there that are worth while; i.e. the install isn’t 40MB and only runs 640×480 but at the same time doesn’t need 4GB of ram? The processor is 64bit with 2 threads.

[RTheren]

Something with LXDE should do the trick IMO

[Venn Stone]

You can run any distro on it just mind what DM/WM you use.

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions … 08-netbook

[__eMpTy__]

I have a single core 2gb Aspire One netbook that actually runs Kubuntu 14.04 mobile nicely… until you start Chrome. Then it’s swap swap swap, all day long. Lubuntu is the Ubuntu 14.04 LXDE spin that I have found is much lighter on resources, while still having usb automounting, etc.

But who are we kidding? You’re going to run Biebian and don’t bother denying it.

[linuxgnuru]

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But who are we kidding? You’re going to run Biebian and don’t bother denying it.

actually, i was thinking of trying this out

http://www.ponyos.org/

[Pedro Mateus]

I’ve been running Ubuntu Mate on my 7 year old netbook.

[madhi19]

I’d give Openelec a look. If anything else you can turn that sucker into a nice kodi box.

[strider]

The only GNU distributions that are compatible with netbooks are Xandros, Linpus and Ubuntu Netbook Remix Edition.
All the other GNU distributions will produce kernals panics when playing Tux Racer or Xbill. I recommend going with Linpus ( http://www.linpus.com/products_linpuslite.html ) because it is lite and you can use the Eclipse IDE on it.

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