I have an old Toshiba Satellite, with 512 Mb of ram and a 1.6 GHz Celeron M, and 80 Gb Fujitsu hard drive. What would be the best Ubuntu distribution to install on this laptop? Or any other suggestions? Upgrade the RAM to 2 Gb is an option maybe, 2Gb is the maximum supported. It's know it's getting old.
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1Depends on what you want to do with the machine. My oldest used laptop is a 1.6ghz pentium-M with 1gb of ram & its not fun to use for some things, but for other things its great. Your main problem is ram; 2gb would be much better. Modern browsing does all the work on the browser (not on the server like long ago) so it needs memory. Forget GNOME, KDE, even gtk3-MATE or Unity on 1gb or less; you're limited to XFCE or LXDE, openbox or lighter if you want a GUI. Does your CPU support PAE, if it doesn't you can't run any flash (not even on windows), but I'd choose Lubuntu & upgrade ram to 1gb+ – guiverc Feb 17 '18 at 00:45
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if you install Ubuntu - you'll need to refer to this https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PAE . Note: this is not a problem with Ubuntu, but bugs in the intel celeron M processor you have (my pentium M too) – guiverc Feb 17 '18 at 00:53
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Go with Lubuntu 14.04. It is supported till April 2019. I have 3G RAM on an old HP laptop with an AMD Turion T-58 processor. It's bit slow on Unity Desktop but still workable.
The RAM upgrade will increase responsiveness by reducing swapping memory to disk.
If you just need a server then it will work well.
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