Thanks everyone,
Antix worked for me, so I am staying with it for now. Got an up-to-date firefox and snappy user interface. A very primitive distribution, but my son seems to be doing his remote schoolwork on it fine (except for Zoom, but that must be nightmare to set up on a distro that has...
It is :)
OT: I am also trying to get a Zoom client for that computer - but trying to download a 32 bit zoom client from Zoom opens up a non-existent page: https://zoom.us/download?os=linux . Damn...
I was trying to avoid downloading a lot of distros only to be disappointed at the outcome – I seem to be unable to find a current distro in Ubuntu ecosystem that would not conflict with my hardware. I will try Antix, see how that goes. Will perhaps just burn it onto a DVD - that was the usual...
Hi, thanks for responses. For now I have installed a last-known-to-work version of Ubuntu 14.04 (Lubuntu, actually).
I was thinking that newer kernel versions and newer versions of open source Radeon driver are tested on newer hardware, so it is no wonder that older hardware starts to fail...
I am looking for a lightweight distribution for the computer described below. The main showstopper for a modern Ubuntu on that computer is the Radeon 9200 graphics card. So, I need a recommendation of a distribution (preferably - a Debian derivative) that would support that graphics card, and...