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I have an ASUS EEE PC 2G Surf netbook, Celeron M CPU 800MHz, 504 MB RAM, 2 GB TIF card as drive E and 2 GB soldered HDD. I have Win XP OS installed.

Unfortunately, due to recent security updates, it now has only 224 KB of free space left on the HDD. I'd like to install a minimal OS on this; so, I can use the netbook to stream music only. Will delete Win XP and replace with linux.

I am completely new to linux/; so, I have no idea where to start. Is there a small enough version of Ubuntu that I can use on this netbook, and how do I download and install it?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Both Xubuntu and my personal favorite Lubuntu are very lightweight, I run them successfully on hardware with lower specs. Find installation instructions on the linked websites.

About Lubuntu, the wiki.ubuntu.com says:

We have done many tests and we've found out that Lubuntu can be installed on a Pentium II or Celeron system with 128 MB of RAM, but such a system would not perform well enough for daily use. With 256MB - 384MB of RAM, the performance will be better and the system will be more usable. With 512MB of RAM, you don't need to worry much.

[H]ere are the minimum supported requirements of Lubuntu: 266 MHz processor; 128 MB; 3 GB hard drive; no fancy graphics

A more usable system would have: 512 MHz processor or faster, 32 or 64 bits; 512 MB of RAM; 6 GB hard drive; no fancy graphics

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