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Old 05-07-2014, 04:37 PM   #173
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I am currently trying to do something useful with an old laptop of my mother's. It's the Dell Inspiron B130, WinXP, 40 GB HDD, Intel Celeron M 420 processor, and has 256 MB RAM also... I just ordered a RAM upgrade to 2x1 GB so when I get it hopefully I can get something to actually run...

Looking around for a replacement HDD, it's been suggested on various places the hardware can't handle larger than 120 GB. But I can go all the way to EIDE. W00t!!

I was thinking of installing Arch Linux, because it sounds fun
Have a look at MX-14.

It should run well on that system, especially with that much RAM. It has a Debian base with the XFCE desktop. It's a hybrid of Mepis and antiX. (antiX itself should run on the 256MB of RAM.)
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