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Since I will most likely get a new computer soon, I would like to install Linux to my old one, I heard that there are good operating systems that don't require much memory, but since I'm kinda noob to these stuff (never worked with Linux), I would like to ask if anyone can recommend me what should I get, here are the specs:

~498 MB RAM
-1.4 GHz
-32 MB VRAM
150 GB HDD (100 GB / 50 GB)

I want a basic* operating system that has nice support (apps,browser and such),its' going to be always connected to the net and I would probably use it for Facebook and saving pictures/word documents on it, I have a lot of PDF documents as well...

*doesn't need to be graphically enhanced with effects and bunch of stuff that I won't use
 
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that don't require much memory
Less and less true nowadays.

@Darren Hale is correct, you need a lightweight distro. Could you increase the amount of RAM? Linux Lite has recommended minimum system requirements of 512MB RAM.

You could look at Lubuntu http://lubuntu.net/ or LXLE http://lxle.net/ or Antix http://antix.mepis.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

There are distros with lower requirements but they normally require you to manually partition, which can be tricky for a newbie. Higher versions will have automatic partitioning.

BEWARE! If you add heavyweight apps to a lightweight distro you will cancel it out...
 
I will still try out 'Linux Lite' and all the others on a VM machine with the same setup as the real machine, thanks for the support, I'll probably play with em' all night since there's nothing else to do :D
Less and less true nowadays.
BEWARE! If you add heavyweight apps to a lightweight distro you will cancel it out...
What do you mean by that?

PS I have 64MBx3 around my place, but none of them will help me out, still I will try to buy some after few months probably...
 
I mean:

1) Some of the major distros are demanding more and more memory. They are not lightweight. Some, more basic, distros are still lightweight but generally more difficult for a newbie to install.

2) If you use a lightweight distro and then add a lot of heavyweight apps on top of it you no longer have a "lightweight" distro. One list of lightweight apps I have found useful is at
http://harbhag.wordpress.com/2010/07/02/best-lightweight-applications-for-linux/
 
Isn't it normal for an OS to get more and more heavy as more applications are installed?
 
PS: I'm running lxle on a USB drive, and I have Lubuntu disk, I think I made the right choice, if anyone thinks not - give ideas, say why.
Linux rules! :D
 
Both USB and CD will run slower than an actual Hard Drive install.
 
I'm sure of that, but lxle runs on USB WAY better than on a CD, that just takes 5 minutes to power on, and on USB it's like 1-2 minutes, and it doesn't actually run slow.

By the way, i have a 16 GB flash drive, when I plug it in the system get's stuck on it's post screen, but on my 4 GB flash drive it starts well, any ideas why this happens?
 

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