Best Linux distro for 32 bits old computer with 2GB ram?

[j2ee]

Yes. All the standard Buntu releases are born with around 270 days so 365 (well, actually it's closer to 400) is a luxury.

Then what do I do after 400 days and out of update?

[sudodus]

Install another linux distro, the best alternative at that time

Edit: This is particularly easy, if you keep your data (documents, pictures, music, video) in a separate data partition, that you can keep untouched when you install new operating systems.

[wolftrax]

arch linux or Debian. both supports 32 bit .

[j2ee]

Edit: This is particularly easy, if you keep your data (documents, pictures, music, video) in a separate data partition, that you can keep untouched when you install new operating systems.

Then why dont I just choose a non ubuntu distro now?

[j2ee]

arch linux or Debian. both supports 32 bit .

arch linux is too complicated

[Irihapeti]

Then why dont I just choose a non ubuntu distro now?

No reason at all - go for it if it works for you.

You could look at Debian or CentOS. I have Debian on my EeePC900 (as mentioned earlier) and I just might try CentOS on an external disk and see what happens.

[kurt18947]

arch linux is too complicated

Isn't Manjaro an easier to use Arch? You could look at Distrowatch if you haven't, see which distros offer 32 bit.

[j2ee]

Isn't Manjaro an easier to use Arch? You could look at Distrowatch if you haven't, see which distros offer 32 bit.

I install Manjaro last night and it is really good. Just little bit update issue and I can google all answers in its forum. I tried Debian but I need to manually install display and wifi drivers, I couldnt figure out how to install that old ATI driver for gnome. Manjaro installation was so smooth and easy, the performance is good too even with 2006 laptop. I could run Debian with KDE but it looks so bad, the login screen look like any random person just used 5 minutes to create it. Manjaro look pro.

[kurt18947]

How about after buying it, find out it is a $1 fake ram from China doesnt even work, and then cannot find the seller, 10 dollars and effort total lose.

I guess that's a risk but I've bought memory off Ebay and had no problems. I usually buy pulls/used from US based sellers and make sure the seller accepts returns. As soon as possible after receiving it I install it and run memtest for at least a couple hours. If a seller has at least 20 transactions - more is better - I feel it's worth the risk.

[j2ee]

I guess that's a risk but I've bought memory off Ebay and had no problems. I usually buy pulls/used from US based sellers and make sure the seller accepts returns. As soon as possible after receiving it I install it and run memtest for at least a couple hours. If a seller has at least 20 transactions - more is better - I feel it's worth the risk.

I agree buying second hand ram from a good rating seller is a solution, especially some ram brands have life long warranty. But for my T60 notebook, there is 1GB ram vs 2 to fill out all slots already. It is such an old notebook that I don't want to spend any money on it especially its cpu only supports 32bits so 3GB ram is max anyway. It still runs pretty smooth with manjaro and normal HDD.