A few years ago, I was going to take an old laptop to the recycling depot. I bought it fourteen years ago. It came with Windows 7 installed. Later I tried to put Windows 10 on it, but it slowed to a crawl and was basically unusable. Then I read an article in PC Mag that told me I could make use of it by install Linux. I’ve tried several distros. Distros is a term that refers to different types of Linux operating systems.
Recently, I heard about Bodhi Linux, and you don’t have to have a powerful computer to run it.
Bodhi Linux 7.0.0, System Requirements:
Minimum:
- 32bit, 500MHz Processor (including Non-PAE)
- 512MB** of RAM
- 5GB of drive space
Recommended:
- 64bit, 1.0GHz processor
- 768MB of RAM
- 10GB of drive space
I thought I would load it into Gnome Boxes, and take it for a test run. I assigned it 100G of disk space and 4G of RAM. This is what the laptop has…
If you go to the Bodhi Linux homepage, you will see it looks different than the one in the video. It comes with several themes installed, or does with the version I downloaded to install. I installed the App Pack Release, which comes with some software packages pre-installed.
Bodhi is Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) base, so it’s a stable operating system, where you will find everything pretty well works as it should. It’s attractive and nice and snappy on my old laptop. It’s very impressive.
