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I want to install a light distro on my netbook. (It currently has an out of date distro which is not upgradeable.) Here are the specs:

  • eEE pc 4g GLAXY, LINUX 4g SSD, 512MB DDR2
  • Intel Mobile cpu & Chipset
  • WI-FI 802, 11B/G 10/100MBPS ETHERNET, 0.3 m CAMERA

Which Lubuntu should I use please?

Will everything work--including wireless?

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  • What I would recommend is that you get a LiveCD of the latest Lubuntu release and run it on your computer via USB (don't install it). If everything works fine after a couple of minutes or hours of use, then you are good to go.
    – somoso
    Jun 20, 2012 at 11:37
  • ok- that sounds easy. Will it run easily from the usb key? It's not a computer but a little netbook
    – Trisha
    Jun 20, 2012 at 11:49
  • @Trisha It will run.you need to prepare a live usb using unetbootin (for all platforms) or LILI (for preparing in windows machine)
    – Web-E
    Jun 20, 2012 at 12:02
  • You should have no problem with the latest Lubuntu Release :)
    – dlin
    Jun 20, 2012 at 12:06
  • did the above but netbook wont boot from USB stick which is what I suspected.
    – Trisha
    Jun 20, 2012 at 14:47

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Lubuntu 12.04 32-bit

The latest version of lubuntu will support in your hardware. Download it right now. :-)

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Precise Pangolin of course. Download it from here. Here you have USB Pendrive, it would help to install from usb stick.

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You will need to be sure to install the 32-bit version of Lubuntu.

Your hardware should work completely without issue, but the install size of Lubuntu will come close to consuming your whole SSD. This is dangerous because Lubuntu is not as light as you might think it is. Once you open a couple of tabs with the default installed Chromium, you will be swapping to disk.

By default, the installer will partition a 512MB swap partition, leaving you with less than 3.2 GB hard drive space after being formatted.

It's gonna be a hard road. Good luck. :)

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