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HP Pavilion dv6500 Notebook PC
Intel Core 2 Duo T5250 @ 1.5GHz
2GB RAM Hitachi 500GB HDD
Windows Vista

What distro would you recommend?
Can this be done with a USB or will a DVD be necessary?

I want to save it from ewaste because it has a ridiculous number of ports on the sides.

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[-] phanto@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

I am running Mint 19 xfce 32-bit on a Pentium 4 with 1gb of RAM. Works okay. Not seeing showed records, but useable for, like, 2 or 3 tabs or for word processing. You could probably do a bit better with that system.

[-] Rubisco@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

I was worried 32-bit would be necessary, but 64 went okay. It is slow, but I was expecting that. It's quieter now though, and it shuts down faster.

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