badbass Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 I have a fujitsu life book. I want opinions about a lean distro for it. It has a hard drive is why I think it is not a netbook. I like gnome not unity. If I have to I will boot from a flash drive and use the hard drive as extra storage space. I am flexible. Thanks I will have another glass of campus oaks red zin from lodi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infiltrator Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 (edited) http://linuxmint.com/ Edited March 11, 2012 by Infiltrator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d3cryption Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 arch linux... installing only what you need..... use a tiliing window manager. xfce4, or openbox.. i wouldn't run gnome on a older laptop.......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Cooper Posted March 11, 2012 Share Posted March 11, 2012 I use Gentoo on my eeepc 900 (5 years old now) and if you have the patience then it can definitely be lean and fast. The main downside is that it you need to make sure you have plenty of time when you want to run an full update as it can require a lot of compiling on the machine. Having said that I have also a 7 year old Toshiba laptop (Pentium 4 - 2.66GHz, 512MB memory and 30GB hard disk) which runs the latest version of Debian fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badbass Posted March 17, 2012 Author Share Posted March 17, 2012 What I ended up up doing was install an older version of ubuntu with lts. This one has gnome. We will get back to the unity kde gnome and other window managers. I have a bar to go to, have to setup for tonight have guiness and 20 other beers to promote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badbass Posted March 18, 2012 Author Share Posted March 18, 2012 Forgot to say thank you. Should of looked into Linux mint but I have it working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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