astromodder Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 I have an IBM R40e laptop that i would like to put linux on. It has a 2.2Ghz Celeron processor (CPU-Z says its a mobile processor but i dont know if its celeron-m or celeron), anywya it has 384mb ram, and 20GB hard drive, what would be a good linux distro that would run decently on it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 Suse 10.1 works pretty well on my laptop, but you might not have enough ram for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingwray Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 That should be fine for running nearly any version of Linux. If your new to linux (which it sounds like you are as you are asking this question) then look at Ubuntu. It is simply the best distro to start off with and for detecting hardware etc. I haven't found anything better. While 384MB of RAM is not loads its certainly a decent amount as I still see some laptops being sold with 256MB! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PoyBoy Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 Ubuntu and SUSE 10.1 are what Ive stuck with the longest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anyedie Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 i recently installed mandriva on my lappy. I love it! infact im using it right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astromodder Posted September 24, 2006 Author Share Posted September 24, 2006 well you could say i am new to linux, knowledge wise, however i have been playing with linux for some years now, just never really used it, i installed ubuntu but it is sort of slow with the gnome desktop, i am going to try xubuntu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbjazzman Posted September 24, 2006 Share Posted September 24, 2006 I've used various flavors of ubuntu (k, n, x), SuSE and Fedora on my dell, which has comparable states (I do have considerably more ram than your's does), and I've never had any problems with them. I'd personally recommend ubuntu, but that's because apt-get is teh awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingwray Posted September 24, 2006 Share Posted September 24, 2006 'yast -i' is quite good/useful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yourmysin Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 I personally cannot think of any Distro's that would NOT work with those specs. So if i was you i would start thinking about what you are planning on using it for. Personally i use Fedora core 5, Suse 10.1 and Ubuntu and i like all of them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest K1u Posted October 1, 2006 Share Posted October 1, 2006 Yeahhh u will be able to run suse but not well good go with ubunto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a5an0 Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 In my experience, Ubuntu has he least trouble with hardware out of the box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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