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Posted March 05, 2017
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Tallima: My system is a Dell Inspiron 5100

P4 2.4GHz
1GB RAM

I've had a fairly recent version of Mint on it at some point in the past year from a live-"CD" USB drive. However, I have no USB drive in the house that I can find (we moved in August and they seem to have vaporized). And my desktop DVD burners were IDE and I upgraded to a SATA-only MOBO last year, so the only burner I have is on the Dell laptop and it's just a CD burner.

I want to access my Google drive and do some writing in bed on Saturday mornings, so I took back the laptop from the kids (sorry kids! I'll put Putt-Putt back on!) and re-enabled all of the internet settings. But it had Win XP and I don't want it on the Internet. So I looked around for a distro that would fit on a CD-RW and ran into several. But Puppy was very cute, usable, had a Ubuntu-based version (hopefully will support Putt-Putt and Pajama Sam and Freddie Fish), and had very thorough tutorials (I'm much better with Linux these days, but I still like tutorials). But mostly cute. So I installed it and cello! It works!
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murcielago: Not having DVD reader nor bootable usb could be a problem. Latest ubuntu versions don't fit in a CD. However you can use the "Minimal CD" installation (read about it here).

That P4 should run fine. At least, better than my Intel Atom, and I have played some games on it through Wine (Thief, Commandos2) or virtual machines (Edna and Harvey series)

PD: I would not install Precise Puppy, as it's based in older LTS version of Ubuntu, and supports for this version expires this year. Search for another version based in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
This post was a lifesavers thank you! Puppy wasn't working so good. it had tons of dead app links and things wouldn't install properly. I installing Ubuntu now which appears to be going well. Yay!
Posted March 05, 2017
Just trim it down a bit and you should be alright.
Posted March 05, 2017
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Tallima: My system is a Dell Inspiron 5100

P4 2.4GHz
1GB RAM
Hello! I have used P4 2.4 Ghz system with 2GB of memory with current Debian Stable (backports enabled).
With such amount of memory, non-Unity, non-KDE, non-Cinnamon respins of Ubuntu should also work: IceWM, fluxbox/openbox etc.
I have no idea how much memory Mate uses, I assume same as current XFCE (300).

But if you tune Firefox(ublock, 1-10 tabs MAX, reduce about:config cache settings for amount of visited pages) and use it sparingly, it should fit within 1Gb.
Posted March 05, 2017
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Tallima: My system is a Dell Inspiron 5100

P4 2.4GHz
1GB RAM
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Lin545: Hello! I have used P4 2.4 Ghz system with 2GB of memory with current Debian Stable (backports enabled).
With such amount of memory, non-Unity, non-KDE, non-Cinnamon respins of Ubuntu should also work: IceWM, fluxbox/openbox etc.
I have no idea how much memory Mate uses, I assume same as current XFCE (300).

But if you tune Firefox(ublock, 1-10 tabs MAX, reduce about:config cache settings for amount of visited pages) and use it sparingly, it should fit within 1Gb.
I'm using xfce and was able to play around briefly. It looks like it'll work perfectly for my intended use.
Posted March 05, 2017
I've installed Puppy Linux (Tharpup 6.0) on a HDD of my very old laptop and I'm very happy with it. System goes up in about few secs, I use it for internet browsing, working with docs and simple spreadsheets etc.
Posted March 10, 2017
I'm back to puppy. Slacko this time. Ubuntu just refused to recognize my wifi card. I went through a hundred tutorials and it just wouldn't find it. Puppy finds it fast with their nifty laptop wifi configuration tool. Ubuntu also maxed my resolution at 800x600, it must have struggled with my video too.

Anyhoots, slacko supports a Firefox version that runs Google docs. And it can have Dropbox, which is what I'll probably end up doing. It's still sluggish, so I have some optimization to do I'm sure. But it's working. A few days of work might bring new life to this old laptop yet!
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