Which lightweight OS for transmission on old hardware?

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zinneken
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Which lightweight OS for transmission on old hardware?

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I'm looking for the most lightweight noob distro to run transmission on old celeron hardware. There is only 384mb ram, celeron M 1860mhz

I'm not very knowledgeable about linux, so will need a GUI for desktop, file management, good firewall and ... transmission operating as swiftly as possible.

I'd like it snappy and speedy for torrents only

Which "out of the box" lightweight & speedy OS/package would you recommend? Thanks!
tuxolero
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Re: Which lightweight OS for transmission on old hardware?

Post by tuxolero »

I would give Lubuntu a try.
This is an easy-to-install Linux distribution with the LXDE desktop. Of course, it is not full-featured, but it's graphic and has a file manager.

You may want to uninstall all the office software that is installed by default (unfortunately).
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