Lucid Puppy - Linux for Legacy Computers

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jun 3, 2010 6:31 PM EDT
LinuxPlanet; By Paul Ferrill
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One of the original targets of Linux was the under-powered computer gathering dust in the closet destined for electronic disposal. While that sounds like a noble goal, it isn't reality for the majority of today's Linux distributions. Xubuntu says it's for the limited resource computer, but even it has a minimum memory requirement of 256 MB. You probably won't have a very pleasant experience running Firefox on a machine with less than 512 MB of memory.

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