[Lazarus] Lazarus on my ancient computer?

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Sven Barth wrote:
> On 14.02.2016 15:14, Bart wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is a bit off-topic.
>>
>> I have an ancient computer: Intel Celeron 700Mhz, 512MB RAM, 20GB IDE HD.
>> (http://flyingsheep.nl/computer_nostalgie.htm#celeron700)
>> (Hardware upgrades are not in the picture.)
> 
> [snip]
> 
>> So, do you have tips on which Linux flavour to install on this machine?
> 
> I'd suggest ArchLinux. It's a very lightweight distro that's based on a
> rolling release (like Gentoo), but uses binary packages instead. I use
> it on my two main computers. On one I'm only using Awesome as window
> manager and on the other OpenBox. Nothing else.

Alternatively, I run Debian "Lenny" with KDE on a number of machines of 
that sort of spec. For later Debians consider XFCE irrespective of 
system spec.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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