In PC industry, hardware outdated too frequent. Your hardware often too old and too slow for the latest applications or Operating System. But you can give life to your old desktop by installing some lightweigth Linux distro.

Here are 6 linux distros that are less that 350MB. The first four are less than 256MB, suitable for less RAM computer.

Slitaz – 30MB. All the graphical desktop requirement you need to have are all inside the 30MB ISO file. The core LiveCD includes Firefox 3.0.8, gFTP, LostIRC, ePDFView, mtPaint, Transmission, Osmo and Alsaplayer. The software you need for entertainment can be found inside.

Damn Small Linux – 50MB filesize, able to boot from USB pen drive and business CD. The minimum requirement for the OS is an Intel 486 processor and 16MB! Very suitable for very very old desktop.

PuppyLinux – 85MB filesize. Preinstalled with almost all the applications you needed for leisure. It has good graphic interface, suitable for linux beginners.

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6 Linux Distros that can save your old hardware

There is a problem on showing purper desktop when using some ATI graphic cards. Here is one of the solutions I can find to solve this.

In the terminal, type the below command line by line to get the the open source ATI driver you needed for the problem.

sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool pkg-config git-core

sudo apt-get install libdrm-dev x11proto-gl-dev mesa-common-dev xutils-dev x11proto-xf86dri-dev x11proto-fonts-dev x11proto-randr-dev x11proto-video-dev x11proto-xext-dev x11proto-xinerama-dev x11proto-render-dev xserver-xorg-dev

git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati

cd xf86-video-ati

sudo ./autogen.sh –prefix=/usr –enable-dri

sudo make

sudo make install