I have a laptop here that has no OS currently installed. I have been told by the owner that it used to run a "puppy" version of Linux. The laptop is a Dell Latitude D430. Anyone know a compatible version of Linux for this laptop.
Dell Latitude D430 (Core 2 Duo 1.2GHz, 1GB RAM, 60GB HDD, XP Home) overview and full product specs on CNET.
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For a machine like this I HIGHLY recommend crunchbang. Its now debian based so you get some sense of stability but it also uses openbox and so is very lightweight.
Warlike, please what is crunch-bang ? Not every one know ! I am Italy live in France and write a little English.... do you know ? On the world there are 7111 language more dialect. Merci
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There are a TON of really good distros for small machines. I run Bodhi 5.0 on my old Toshiba A135 laptop. Any one of these suggestions would be great. I would avoid usin Puppy on anything. It's designed to NOT be installed on a hard drive - you can, but it's not really useful.
Wow, thanks for all the suggestions, I'll check these out. I don't have access to the laptop because it's not mine, but I'll check the compatibility of the recommended OSs and provide the owner with the info.