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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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What distro would you recommend for a 32-bit old Acer One laptop? (kbin.social)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's an old model (Acer One D257) Processor is Intel Atom. Memory is 1GB DDR3 with 320 GB of HDD. I currently Have MX 21 running on it, but I need to reinstall because I forgot the root password. Since I'm reinstalling the OS, I thought I'd ask here for recommendations for an OS that makes the most of this oldie.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Whatever distro you install, make sure you enable zram, it makes old computers with low ram much more usable, and an out of memory killer too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ooms are much less necessary with MGLRU if they keep to a new kernel

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'd still use an oom killer even on 6.1 which is the kernel Debian uses, mglru got improvements in following kernels like you said.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The Linux kernel already has OOM killing... Do you mean something like Facebook's oomd where you can more easily control it from userspace?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

yeah, from what i remember the kernel's oom killer isn't that fast and external ones work better

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks! Great advice 👍