01-28-2017, 02:31 PM
Try Porteus, on a USB or an HDD. As suggested already Puppy should run okay too. Also if there is an option in the BIOS to allow HDD to set disk parameters rather than OEM setting choose it. Nothing runs faster than Porteus on old hardware but it needs Frugal to set up on HDD. Linux Lite should run fine except for Firefox due to CPU loads. Use a lightweight browser instead and all will be well. After install of LL try increasing swappiness. All my LL 3.2 OS's regularly run up to around 400 to 500 mb ram. 1gig of ram is quite adequate. 500 will kick you to swap sometimes but not slow things much. Your slowness is more than likely caused by CPU loads. On a 1.88gig CPU Firefox in LL 3.2 sometimes pulls 100% CPU in brief spurts. Nothing available has lighter CPU loading than Porteus, except manual minimal installs of Deb.
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