Puppy Linux on an old Celeron @ 333MHz, with 160MB of RAM and 4GB of disk space.
I was amazed at the speed compared to Windows XP and even 98SE. It weighed about 100MB but had quite a few applications like mtpaint, Inkscape, Abiword, some spreadsheet program (I don’t remember which was it, don’t think it was GNUmeric), mplayer, some lightweight browser (I think it was Midori), even XChat.
The only (and BIG) problem is that you basically ran everything as root.
Some time later I bought a more powerful PC (Intel something dual core @ 3GHz, 4GB RAM and 500GB disk), and used the pre installed Windows 7 for some time before installing Ubuntu (I think 12.04) and I’ve been using it since.
Puppy Linux on an old Celeron @ 333MHz, with 160MB of RAM and 4GB of disk space.
I was amazed at the speed compared to Windows XP and even 98SE. It weighed about 100MB but had quite a few applications like mtpaint, Inkscape, Abiword, some spreadsheet program (I don’t remember which was it, don’t think it was GNUmeric), mplayer, some lightweight browser (I think it was Midori), even XChat.
The only (and BIG) problem is that you basically ran everything as root.
Some time later I bought a more powerful PC (Intel something dual core @ 3GHz, 4GB RAM and 500GB disk), and used the pre installed Windows 7 for some time before installing Ubuntu (I think 12.04) and I’ve been using it since.