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I have bee months trying to revive a PC that is so old, people that I told about it just say to junk it. But I believe that there is a Linux OS out there that can help me out. The Type of PC that I'm trying to Revive is a 2001 Gateway Desktop with an Intel Pentium 4 processor. The Processing speed is 1.50Gz, and the System Bus Speed is 400MHz. The Cache RAM is 256KB and the total Memory with a friend's Driver that I installed on it is 512MB but 256MB with the one it came with. It also runs on Windows xp but the OS is messed up. Its so slow that I booted up Lubuntu up there once (and that was my only time), and it was lagging a lot. I tested on my laptop (HP AMD Turion 64x2 with 2GB RAM), and it worked perfectly. Ubuntu or any OS Linux can I install on my computer?

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You can try Xubuntu - is perfect for those who want the most out of their desktops, laptops and netbooks with a modern look and enough features for efficient, daily usage. It works well on older hardware.

Xubuntu

Or, better, Lubuntu - is targeted at PC and laptop users running on low-spec hardware that, in most cases, just don't have enough resources for all the bells and whistles of the "full-featured" mainstream distributions.

Lubuntu

Radu Rădeanu
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You can try Lubuntu, which is simmialr to Xubuntu, but uses LXDE instead.

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BeryJu
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I'd say replace the hard drive with a small SSD, and then run any flavor of Ubuntu you like. 1 GB of RAM and 1.5 GHz is MIGHTY thin, but the bottleneck of any general purpose computer is the hard drive. Any *buntu offering over 10.x will be a little laggy, but not overly so. You might even re-install Windows XP, which should perform quite well.

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