[GTALUG] distro for an old Thinkpad
Giles Orr
gilesorr at gmail.com
Fri Apr 22 23:59:47 EDT 2016
On 22 April 2016 at 20:58, Kevin Cozens <kevin at ve3syb.ca> wrote:
> On 16-04-22 08:33 PM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
>>
>> I've had good luck, when I needed it, with Puppy. Reasonable support for
>> devices and an awareness that it'll be used on low horsepower systems.
>
> Another option in the style of Puppy Linux is DSL (Damn Small Linux). It
> depends on how stripped down a distro would still suit you as the basis for
> what you want to do with it.
I loved DSL - I thought it was the best small distro out there. But I
say it in the past tense as it hasn't been updated since 2012: doesn't
seem like a good choice anymore.
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