Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Andreas Kohlbach Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup Subject: Re: What's the best low-end supported Linux to use in a very old 2008 MacBook Pro? Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 16:36:15 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 34 Message-ID: <87bkusibwg.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="4138235ded3911368d6bda8ecec5b0d2"; logging-data="29184"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/gkFO3wtDr9nscf+cby2RL" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WmWbYy6wCxMWxNv9151Bez1hlk0= sha1:JCBQKo3q2BcUWOl+7C8bX6mB/uE= Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.hardware:3536 comp.os.linux.misc:34815 comp.os.linux.setup:4777 On Thu, 16 Jun 2022 12:19:44 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > > On 15/06/2022 19:42, Ant wrote: >> >> I have a 14 years old old MacBook Pro (15" A1260 model, unibody; 2.4 >> Ghz >> Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB (667 MHz) of DDR2 SDRAM, ^^^^ >> 200 GB HDD, NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT (256 MB of VRAM), & Mac OS X (El >> Capitan v10.11.6)) from early 2008. Its software are too old, >> unsupported, and too slow. I'm thinking about replacing them with >> Linux, but which one would be suitable for it? I still want basic GUI >> like web browsing. I remember trying doing the same for an old >> PowerBook G4, but I couldn't get its wifi to work with various Linux >> installations. I hope this won't happen again with it. Thank you for >> reading and hopefully answering soon. :) > > In general Mint MATE is easy to install and covers most bases. I don't think even MATE will run smoothly with 2 GB RAM. Itself might, but after opening only one GUI browser it might already run into a swap orgy. If the install media has enough space, install MATE and something lightweight like Xfce parallel and choose MATE for login first if it works. If not Xfce. Hmm, just remember something called Blackbox (or Fluxbox) I used on a 512 MB machine in 2004 (the machine was from 1999 or something). Lightweight, but one has to get used to it. IIRC most actions were performed with the right mouse key. -- Andreas