What is the best linux distribution for this computer?

Question

Emachines T184
intel celeron 1.8 GHz processor
126 mb of ram

I already tried xubuntu (ran slow)
and Damn Small Linux (Colors were distorted and grain because of my intel chipset)
So don't recommend either of those

Answer 1

Have tried PuppyLinux before?

http://www.puppylinux.org/user/viewpage.php?page_id=1

When I said it required 128 MB of RAM, I wasn't being exactly clear. What Puppy does is loads itself, most of the contents of the CD, into RAM, so that they are faster and don't have to be loaded from the CD. The interface is designed to be somewhat similar to Windows 95. I've never installed it to a hard drive, but it should be possible, and from there it would be even faster.

http://www.puppylinux.com/hard-puppy.htm

Answer 2

Oh, an incredible style of the distributions will assist you to run some subset on that ... 80GB? it incredibly is all outdoors. i presumed you have been going to ask approximately getting Linux to run on your 486 (you may!). in case you do no longer run X (the windowing gadget), 512MB would be greater then adequate. in case you do run X, you will have the desire to basically be sure you run fairly few graphical apps on a similar time. additionally turn off in spite of centers you do no longer desire that begin at boot time. in case you incredibly need to personalize to get the final little bit of bang to your greenback, i could advise "gentoo" which will assist you to collect the kernel for precisely the processor you like besides as merely the equipment - no longer for the faint of heart. fairly, you're able to try this with maximum of them - yet gentoo is incredibly setup to do it.

Answer 3

Zenwalk or Saxenos are two of my favs. they will run on a lot of hardware faster than debian based or Redhat based just at times a slighter higher learning curve if you are a newbie

Answer 4

You can also look at Linspire