Yes, I said compy, lets just ignore that.
I have an old Pentium 2 desktop, 128 ram, 4 meg video card (not OTB crap, it's actually half way good, for 10 years ago anyways...) floppy, CDRW, all the sweet stuff for a ten year old computer.
I need a Linux distro that can run on this old machine, I tried PCLinuxOS, and it booted, but had tons of problems with the desktop not showing and stuff.
So are there any Distros made specifically for old computers or old versions of distros that haven't expired.
BTW, I'm not using windows 98 because I got the computer second hand, no windows CD, and it practically blew up in my face, I had to end up reformatting the hard drive to the point where I didn't even have DOS on it any more, only thing I have is Award Bios, which thankfully can boot from the CD ROM.
2007-03-05 08:03:42 · 5 answers · asked by nasonguy 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Why not try a little one? www.puppylinux.com Loads to RAM runs very fast. Good luck and enjoy
2007-03-05 09:30:44 · answer #1 · answered by alex m 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just download a few and try them.
Knoppix.
Ubuntu.
Suse.
Fedora.
Mandriva.
And others from www.distrowatch.org.
MOST should run on that hardware (the key is having the 128 MB of RAM. Several distros have issues installing when the system has less than 128 MB of RAM).
2007-03-05 16:13:03 · answer #2 · answered by lwcomputing 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Elive http://www.elivecd.org/ will works great on a PII based pc with 128 mb ram. I installed it on a Celeron 500 based pc, 64 mb ram and 1 mb shared video card... I was even able to use it live, without installation. On that same pc I tried Xubuntu, but was too slow; I think it may works with no problem on your system, anyway.
Elive (as Ebuntu, which alas is still beta) is based on Elightenment desktop environment http://www.enlightenment.org/ ; I was myself surprised too see how fast and smart and good looking is now (I tried it yet years ago).
2007-03-06 12:01:23 · answer #3 · answered by Pinguino 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Damn Small Linux is really good for older computers.
I tend to use Debian for everything. And it will work well in your situation provided you disable the bells and whistles of which ever GUI you use.
2007-03-05 21:18:53 · answer #4 · answered by CodeRedLin 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try XUBUNTU, it's a lighter version of UBUNTU.
2007-03-05 18:56:13 · answer #5 · answered by hitechsleuth 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋