Light OS for old PC?

[Mixzzz]

So I have an old PC with Athlon 2500+ XP with 768MB ram and FX 5200 Ultra... Since I dont have much money now Im kinda want it to be something like a media PC... I remember I was able to run 720p cartoon on it with ubuntu but I seem not to be able to do that again... So what are your suggestions for a light OS and light video player?

[Scia]

Which Ubuntu have you tried? 10.04 and 12.04 32bit should run well, no? [13.04 is horrible don't try that one ]

[prolemur]

linux mint and banshee media player

[CoolBeans]

Windows 95

[helping]

XP lite

[Classics]

ChromeOS Cherry or Windows XP. 

 

If you've never heard of ChromeOS;

 

[Mixzzz]

Which Ubuntu have you tried? 10.04 and 12.04 32bit should run well, no? [13.04 is horrible don't try that one ]

Tried 12.04... Hmm, found something called puppy linux, its only 165mb....

[mrconan]

crunchbang #!

[911delorean]

Xp may work, with 95 you can only go up to flash 7 so I would use xp,vista,2000,or at the very minimum NT 4.0 or 98 because you can play a few youtube videos with flash 9

[Godlygamer23]

Which Ubuntu have you tried? 10.04 and 12.04 32bit should run well, no? [13.04 is horrible don't try that one ]

I've been using 13.04 and it's faster on my laptop than 12.04. The CPU that my laptop is using is the old Intel Pentium Dual Core. Laptop is 5 years old.

[Scia]

I've been using 13.04 and it's faster on my laptop than 12.04. The CPU that my laptop is using is the old Intel Pentium Dual Core. Laptop is 5 years old.

 

Had really big problems with 13.04, starting by Xorg not accepting my 3850. And so on and so forth and, nah. Fuck 13.04 and fuck amazon integration. ^^

[Godlygamer23]

fuck amazon integration. ^^

You can remove that.

[Scia]

You can remove that.

 

I shouldn't have to =P

[ultimatemythbuster]

A Linux distro such as Mint might work well.

[GerbiLock]

I would go for Windows XP as your best bet. Still the bet OS for me along with Windows 7. It's simple and light, like it was designed to work with PCs your generation anyways. If not, you can also try running Vista Home Basic. I have an old tired Acer travelmate with similar specs and it runs flawlessly with either Vista Home Basic or XP (Home or Pro).

[ultimatemythbuster]

Windows Vista, make sure you don't install the service packs. That computer will run like it has never run before.

[TheProfosist]

Windows Vista, make sure you don't install the service packs. That computer will run like it has never run before.

trolling much?

[TheProfosist]

OP for the spec you listed XP is probably your best bet but you could probably get 7 or 8 to run on it. I dont know if you would see any real benefit with system that old if you choose to do that.

[fallingpizza11]

Windows ME should work fine with that hardware. It's a good solid OS

[xAcid9]

Linus Mint is a good start, or Xubuntu. Ubuntu is not lightweight out of the box.

 

Slighly more lightweight and ghetto, go for #! Crunchbang/Archbang.