Message-ID: <62ababf8@news.ausics.net> From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Subject: Re: What's the best low-end supported Linux to use in a very old? 2008 MacBook Pro? Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup References: <20220615190552@news.eternal-september.org> <_5qdnd_HFe138jf_nZ2dnUU7-RnNnZ2d@giganews.com> <20220615225108@news.eternal-september.org> <87edzoic84.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> User-Agent: tin/2.0.1-20111224 ("Achenvoir") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 17 Jun 2022 08:17:29 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://www.ausics.net Lines: 24 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: csiph.com!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.hardware:3537 comp.os.linux.misc:34816 comp.os.linux.setup:4778 In comp.os.linux.misc Andreas Kohlbach wrote: > > Yes, performance issue, because of the 2 GB RAM. The desktop manager is > the "problem". Forget eye-candy and other "convenient" things with this > old machine. Install something coming with Xfce or similar lightweight > . > > For convenience, choose a distribution which has it as default. But I > suppose any up to date distribution will run fine, as long a the > desktop manager was chosen wisely. JWM is my pick. Star Linux is a Devuan-based distro which comes with JWM as one of the options. It may not come with Mac drivers pre-installed though, I know nothing about running Linux on Macs. The 64-bit version runs very well on my Core 2 Duo laptop with 3GB RAM (actually 4GB, but the 32-bit addressing range of the 32/64bit-CPU-compatible chipset limits it to 3GB usable because other things have to squeeze into the address space as well). 2GB RAM would also be plenty for it, there's only around 130MB RAM used after booting up to the desktop. -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#