On 11 December 2013 19:28, Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11 December 2013 18:19, Deryk Foote <deryk.fo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Ubuntu is great at a lot of things, but keeping my cinder block of an old >> Dell from kicking the proverbial bucket isn't one of them. > > > > If you want something a bit more basic, Crunchbang works very well. It > used to be Ubuntu based but now it's based on Debian. It's even > lighter-weight than Lubuntu but a bit more basic. Do remember to turn > off display compositing though - this is on by default and really > slows down older machines. >
Going out on a slight limb here, but I've had great success* with Manjaro on a set of EeePC 901s (Atom chips with 1GB RAM). Their XFCE version is excellent, and the OpenBox spin (ManjaroBox) is even lighter. It's Arch-based rather than Debian, though. Not that this is a disadvantage - AUR and ABS are incredibly useful. It also works very well on newer stuff (even better in some cases than more established distros). I wouldn't yet use it for a stable server though! J *made a note, there. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
