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    From Wilhelm@VERT/BACKWOOD to All on Saturday, September 26, 2026 11:01:45
    I am setting up an old Thinkpad x200 (8gigs of RAM, SSD, new 9-cell battery) as my cyberdeck. What Unix distro would you recommend? I am leaning towards Debian + i3m or Void Linux.

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  • From Mortar@VERT/EOTLBBS to Wilhelm on Monday, September 28, 2026 09:52:30
    Re: Unix Distro for an older Thinkpad
    By: Wilhelm to All on Sat Sep 26 2026 11:01:45

    What Unix distro would you recommend? I am leaning towards Debian...

    That's Linux. True Unix don't have distros, though there are a few flavors of BSD, which is the next best thing.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Wilhelm on Monday, September 28, 2026 07:48:00
    Wilhelm wrote to All <=-

    I am setting up an old Thinkpad x200 (8gigs of RAM, SSD, new 9-cell battery) as my cyberdeck. What Unix distro would you recommend? I am leaning towards Debian + i3m or Void Linux.

    Is it a 64 bit CPU? I'd hope so. I had a couple of Thinkpads from that
    time that were 32-bit only, and distros were dropping support for
    32-bit.

    There are a ton of lightweight distros out there, I always liked the
    project that became BunsenLabs. It came with OpenBox window manager, a
    Conky display overlay showing system stats, and looked a little
    different from your usual distro.





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  • From DaiTengu@VERT/ENSEMBLE to Wilhelm on Monday, September 28, 2026 13:29:54
    Re: Unix Distro for an older Thinkpad
    By: Wilhelm to All on Sat Sep 26 2026 11:01 am

    I am setting up an old Thinkpad x200 (8gigs of RAM, SSD, new 9-cell battery) as my cyberdeck. What Unix distro would you recommend? I am leaning towards Debian + i3m or Void Linux.

    The community around Void is still pretty small, so it's possible you'll have issues with hardware support on an older laptop like that.

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