A distro for 12 year old laptops

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  • Geany

    A fast and lightweight IDE

    AntiX is definitely going to be the fastest of the recommendations here. I have it on a Core Duo with 2G Ram and I am really a very big fan of that distro. It is all there, sometimes it takes a bit of time to get use to its quirks, but it is worth powering through. You have the option of three lightweight window managers and then there are two file managers that are used to give you some desktop functionality. Take some time to learn which one of those options you like the best. Here is a screenshot of my setup after fiddling with it a bit. For a lighter weight text editor/IDE check out Geany.

  • website

    The Haiku website. (Pull requests are accepted; please file issues at https://dev.haiku-os.org). (by haiku)

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    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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