HP elite 8000 ultra small form factor hardware
Intel Pentium E6500 @ 2.93GHZ
Wolfdale 45nm Technology 4.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 532MHz (7-7-7-20) DELL 1708FP (1280x1024@60Hz) Intel Q45/Q43 Express Chipset (HP) Intel Q45/Q43 Express Chipset (HP) Are the following okay to run Mint on the lite version? I would guess so. |
Same hardware I have from Dell. Best to bring RAM up to 8GB. Not fast, but very usable for ordinary web and document activity. Will play most videos. An upgrade to SSD from HDD is helpful if not done already. I would have expected RAM supported to be 667MHz or 800MHz, possibly more. Upgrade to 8GB should be done with maximum supported RAM speed. Dual channel performance requires matched sticks be installed in pairs.
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Hmm, I was trying to find something for it, I don't really need anything that speedy. Just something that will work beyond windows 7 for a short time, a few years.
The hardware I have was I bought off of Ebay several years back, so upgrading isn't an option. What other or particular versions would be okay for it, I mainly would need firefox only for use. It is a back up, but nothing that serious. I did try many times from many mirrors downloading Mint, all failed. I did try the bittorrent, but that isn't working for me. Most downloads ten hours. |
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Sure, mint lite should be okay?
I have lite on the other computer as an alternative, but I am seeing what others are available? Mint seems one. Unfortunate 2.6GB takes too long to download. Will the torrent be the best option for getting a copy of the mint. I'd guess so. |
I've never found any need for a torrent. I've been using wget for downloading for around 3 decades. If a connection breaks, it can pickup right wherever it left off.
It's not so much a distro that is light, but the DE you use on top of its underlying Linux operating system, and which underlying tools are provided and enabled by default. Distrowatch says the choices for Mint are Cinnamon, MATE & Xfce. I don't see anything on Distrowatch that associates "lite" with Mint, so I have no idea which distro Mint Lite would be. I suspect it would be LMDE, which is Debian-based instead of *buntu-based and thus lighter to start with. From where I sit, Mint is the most bloated distro in existence. I tried upgrading Mint Mate 20.3 to 21.1 just days ago and it filled up the / filesystem before the upgrade completed, and this by using a separate filesystem with loads of space for the .debs in /var/cache/apt/archives. It took several hours to whittle out enough bloat to be able to get the upgrade to complete and have some freespace left on /. My Core2Duos run mostly on Debian, Fedora, Mageia & openSUSE, with a little *buntu mostly for comparisons, and IIRC, one LMDE. My "light" weight DEs are KDE3 on openSUSE, and TDE on the other three. Any distro can be relatively lightweight by removing unneeded bloat, or not allowing it to be installed in the first place, and choosing an efficient and light DE, or not using a DE, but a simple window manager like Fluxbox or IceWM. openSUSE's installer for me makes it easiest to get only what I need and/or want at installation time. I use the 0.2GB NET installation method, which makes 100% of the official software available at installation time with only a minimal initial download that only takes a few minutes or less to fetch, depending on download bandwidth available. Installation itself can take longer this way, but the total available control is hard to beat. |
Devuan, the 'live' installable version using XFCE, is on nearly all my machines, been using it for some time now, give it a test run 'live'. :)
Even works online with just 2GB ram, which is what my converted Chromebook & IGEL thin clients have. |
I was able to download a copy of mint. So far I have a copy of lite and mint lite, so what is best for the hardware I have available? I would guess Mint lite.
https://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=304 |
What Mint calls "lite" is only the lightest of its three choices, not genuinely light. However, it should be just fine for your C2D. Many are perfectly happy using it. Linux Lite is essentially the same thing, just without Mint's additions (what I consider bloat) to Xubuntu. Mint is *buntu-based, and both the distros you downloaded use the XFCE DE. You have a six of one, half-dozen of the other, decision to make. If you favor greens, or ladies' names ending in "a", pick Mint. :)
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