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My objective is to have a Linux PC just to run TOR browser. My laptop has an Intel Centrino Processor 1.70GHz with 512MB RAM, ATi Mobility Radeon 9600 128Mb. Which flavour do you suggest?

I have already tried:

  • Lubuntu - freezes image on install
  • Xubuntu - says processor is non-PAE
  • Linux Mint - other problems and errors
  • Puppy - other problems and errors

Also, every time I try to boot from USB, I get a boot error.

wjandrea
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João Barros
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  • What are you asking here? More detail and structure please –  Nov 02 '16 at 11:10
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    It would be a lot more helpful if you narrowed down your distribution, and then posted the errors you have. Simply saying that you've had many errors over many distributions without much detail isn't helpful. – negusp Nov 02 '16 at 12:41
  • See also [How can I install on a non-PAE CPU? (error “Kernel requires features not present on the CPU: PAE”)](/q/117744/175814) for your secondary question. – David Foerster Nov 02 '16 at 15:48

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I would suggest to go with the Lubuntu-16-04-LTS 32-bit image found here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Alternate_ISO - for your system this installer should do the charm. On this site they say that it might take up to 90min for the installation to complete and that it does not hang even though there is nothing happening for a while. If you get an error about pae-kernel you might have to add forcepae to the boot options as explained here.

As it appears, for your hardware these boot options nomodeset and forcepae need to be set in Grub.

So after installation is completed, I suggest you go get the tor-browser-bundle from torproject.org.

Before you install it let's move it from Downloads to your home-directory; in a terminal type mv ~/Downloads/tor-browser-linux32-6.0.5_LANG.tar.xz tor-browser-linux32-6.0.5_LANG.tar.xz(replace LANG with appropiate language).

Now let's unpack it with tar -xvJf tor-browser-linux32-6.0.5_LANG.tar.xz then we switch into the newly created directory cd tor-browser_LANG and complete installation with ./start-tor-browser.desktop.

Since we want the Tor-Browser be offered in the menu and not always click through directories, I suggest you run - still in the same terminal as above - cp start-tor-browser.desktop ../.local/share/applications/start-tor-browser.desktop

Good Night and Good Luck ;)

d1bro
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  • Comments are not for extended discussion; the entirety of the conversation taking place here has been [moved to chat](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/47958/discussion-on-answer-by-db429-what-ubuntu-version-or-flavor-should-i-use). If you wish to continue, please go there. – Thomas Ward Nov 03 '16 at 21:39
  • thanks @ThomasWard. i tried move to chat but i wasnt able. – João Barros Nov 03 '16 at 21:41
  • @JoãoBarros Next time, flag for moderator attention - we can always move comments to chat. – Thomas Ward Nov 03 '16 at 21:41