I have an older version of Lubuntu running on Pentium 3 1.6ghz with 512 ram.

Currently thinking of going for lighter weight distribution. Perhaps puppy Linux, or slax or porteus. The latter two are much nicer UI wise as compared to puppy Linux.

The system is for Web browsing for my younger sister.

Yeap. currently running LXLE, the LTS alternative for Lubuntu. since it is LTS, i don't have to do much maintenance and just let it auto update itself.

LXLE http://distrowatch.com/lxle

Vector Linux is quite fast too.

currently using the LXLE as the main os on the Pentium 3 with 512mb.


another distro that I found, which is really2 fast is Porteus. http://distrowatch.com/porteus the system is loaded into RAM a-la puppy linux and the design is very modular such that apps are packaged into modules and you can swap the modules as you wish before you load. most of the apps are also compatible with various DEs. it currently supports kde4, lxde, xfce, mate, razor qt.

running porteus from a USB on a slightly newer PC with 2GB RAM and it flies. enabling zram helps too. currently has it setup to run if the family just need to browse web, they prefer the KDE interface too. try it out here http://build.porteus.org main site here http://www.porteus.org/

it has replaced my go to bootable usb from puppy linux to porteus.

there are other distros that can run from RAM, and they are generally faster if you have an older PC, with decent RAM size.

list available here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux...at_run_from_RAM

ranging from very minimal ram requirement of 4mb to 4gb.

This post has been edited by azrash: Dec 19 2013, 12:44 AM