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hello i found an old pentium 4 in my garage and i would like to ask wich version of ubuntu is the best suited for a pentium 4 because i woul like to try ubuntu.

the pc have: 3gb of Ram, 40gb Harddrive, 2.3 ghz processor,

than you in advance.

Naetle
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  • Why don't you tell us? This is the generic answer: https://askubuntu.com/questions/333795/what-are-the-system-requirements-for-each-flavour-of-ubuntu-desktop but what you accept as "best suited" is up to you to decide. – Rinzwind Sep 05 '18 at 08:14
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    The best answers is you try them on your hardware; as you can 'try' without installing (you boot the ISO when expanded to a usb-thumb-drive). Some versions (esp. GNOME & UNITY) have requirements of your graphic card (you didn't specify), let alone requirements of cpu (x86/x86_64/pae..), and your wants/desires/wanted-programs etc - why not try for yourself, or just read the documentation at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements – guiverc Sep 05 '18 at 08:25

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You can try Lubuntu or Ubuntu MATE.

Both are described as lightweigth distributions and a quick search with Google found some success stories on running both of them with PCs of similar specs to yours.

Daniele Santi
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    Modern Ubuntu-MATE (ie. 18.04 & 18.10) no longer call themselves lightweight. The move from GTK+2 to GTK+3 increased its system requirements causing them to drop ' lightweight'. Lubuntu 18.04 & below still use GTK+2, as does Xubuntu 18.04 (though it's moving towards GTK+3, but hadn't completed move at 18.04) – guiverc Sep 05 '18 at 08:29
  • I can recommend Ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS. I'm running it on some Prescotts with 2-4 Gb of RAM. – N0rbert Sep 05 '18 at 16:39