Linux Geeks

[Quoll]

10 year old Q was given a laptop with a dead hard drive, I've replaced it with an old 4gb one I had lying around.
I need recommendations for a small Linux Distro, with a nice learning curve that wont suck up most of his HD space like the evil empire does.

 

[IndieSnob]

Puppy Linux by far.

 

[Quoll]

Puppy Linux by far.

Thanks Indie, that was the one I was thinking of, so far I haven't found anything else that's recommended above that.
Have you had any experience with Jolicloud?

 

[IndieSnob]

Thanks Indie, that was the one I was thinking of, so far I haven't found anything else that's recommended above that.
Have you had any experience with Jolicloud?

No experience with it, but don't really care for the package managers for it.

The cloud storage is nice, but you can just as easily set up something in puppy for that, and have a better package manager.

Also if I recall correctly it requires a little more power than Puppy as well.

 

[Quoll]

No experience with it, but don't really care for the package managers for it.

The cloud storage is nice, but you can just as easily set up something in puppy for that, and have a better package manager.

Also if I recall correctly it requires a little more power than Puppy as well.

Okay ta.

Better package manager you say, not sure if current package manager would approve, still there's nothing like a little competition to inspire innovation.

 

[mercury14]

10 year old Q was given a laptop with a dead hard drive, I've replaced it with an old 4gb one I had lying around.
I need recommendations for a small Linux Distro, with a nice learning curve that wont suck up most of his HD space like the evil empire does.

Don't use a hard drive.

Buy a 16 GB thumb drive and run linux off it. I recommend Linux Mint for it's easy learning curve and minimal usage of the terminal window.

 

[IndieSnob]

If it was replaced with a 4 gig drive, it's most definitely very old (IDE old).

It may not even be USB 2.0. Linux mint on old hardware and off a flash drive is going to run worse than Puppy.

 

[Quoll]

I quite like Mint, but it's a lot harder to lose the laptop than then a usb stick or bend it in half for that matter.
For now he has what he has until I can justify buying a new HD for it.

I'll be giving Puppy a go.

 

[box13]

Slackware forever!

OK, that probably wasn't helpful. Apologies.

 

[Balladeer08]

Slackware forever!

Where is the Paranoid Linux that Corey Doctorow wrote about? THAT I could get into!!!

Reference is to "Little Brother", which you can download and read for free under the Creative Commons license. All of Doctorow's books are available that way.

 

[Chernosoth]

I liked Peppermint for years, and gave Lubuntu a spin, for my usually old slow desktops. The newest Peppermint has glitchy VLC, and some other favorite programs aren't available now. I am using my laptop with older Peppermint. I forget what other lightweight distros exist. The new Peppermint flaws might be in all distros now.

 

[FL30]

I liked Peppermint for years, and gave Lubuntu a spin, for my usually old slow desktops. The newest Peppermint has glitchy VLC, and some other favorite programs aren't available now. I am using my laptop with older Peppermint. I forget what other lightweight distros exist. The new Peppermint flaws might be in all distros now.

You replied to a thread that was last posted to 11 years ago. Don't you think that by now they've figured it out. You're late by more than 11 years.

 

[Chernosoth]

You replied to a thread that was last posted to 11 years ago. Don't you think that by now they've figured it out. You're late by more than 11 years.

Which distro to use is still a current issue for many people, including me.