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- Thu Mar 03, 2022 10:05 pm
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: What Puppy for a 2007 PC w/ 500 MHz CPU and 1GB of RAM?
- Replies: 29
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Re: What Puppy for a 2007 PC w/ 500 MHz CPU and 1GB of RAM?
This is not a "puppy" but some of us are fooling around with 'TinyCore' OS. It is really small. Also you can run Vivaldi browser on it, and also I believe Firefox. You can even run 'ROX' file manager (which is the same file manager as most Puppys use). There is a series of YouTube videos with step ...
- Thu Mar 03, 2022 7:45 pm
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: What Puppy for a 2007 PC w/ 500 MHz CPU and 1GB of RAM?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2981
Re: What Puppy for a 2007 PC w/ 500 MHz CPU and 1GB of RAM?
Regarding video/media files on the web, trying to stream them is likely to drive you nuts, at best. But maybe amethyst or backi can tell you more about making use of the web-sites mentioned here, https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=48267#p48267 perhaps others/similar to download the files ...
- Thu Mar 03, 2022 3:45 pm
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: What Puppy for a 2007 PC w/ 500 MHz CPU and 1GB of RAM?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2981
Re: What Puppy for a 2007 PC w/ 500 MHz CPU and 1GB of RAM?
Do you know what purpose you have for it? It would help a lot, as if you intend to use it for browsing Precise will be hopelessly outdated to even make a connection. Light web browsing and communication. I found out that I could easily install Pidgin but even that is slow as hell. I had nice ...
- Thu Mar 03, 2022 1:26 pm
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: What Puppy for a 2007 PC w/ 500 MHz CPU and 1GB of RAM?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2981
Re: What Puppy for a 2007 PC w/ 500 MHz CPU and 1GB of RAM?
Do you know what purpose you have for it? It would help a lot, as if you intend to use it for browsing Precise will be hopelessly outdated to even make a connection. Light web browsing and communication. I found out that I could easily install Pidgin but even that is slow as hell. I had nice ...
- Wed Mar 02, 2022 8:33 pm
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: What Puppy for a 2007 PC w/ 500 MHz CPU and 1GB of RAM?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2981
What Puppy for a 2007 PC w/ 500 MHz CPU and 1GB of RAM?
Hello everyone. I have a reaaaaally old (I think 2007 or so) laptop Packard Bell s18p. I think it's a rebranding of a VYE S18 and/or Kohjinsha SA1F00A, if any of those ring a bell. It has an AMD Geode LX800 500mhz processor and 1GB of RAM. The thing is... I tried a lot of lightweight linux distros ...