It's a 300mhz cyrix with 60megs of ram, 1.5 gig hard drive and stingray128 video card.

Get a new computer.

(hehe)

(well don't expect much from it that is)

Well I have a better computer but that's for windoze (don't want linux screwing it up.) So what would be a good distro
, I just want to
surf the net, play crappy games, and listen to music. Also it most have a gui.

You could always use Knoppix. LFS or Gentoo might work but will take a long while to load.

I suggest that you take the hard drive out of this crappy box. . . put it in your other computer running winblows. Install linux on the newly added drive and dual boot the box.

You will be much happier.

Well I can't put another hard drive in winblows setup because all my ide controllers are used. Why would it take so long to load? Windows 98se boots in 30secs(crappy comp).

By loading I meant the actual install. They both get installed from source so you will be compiling the actual OS on a very slow computer. This will take a long time but you will have no bloat. Slackware might actually run well to. I forgot about that one.

Assuming you have enough RAM (you never specified), I think any Linux distro would work fine with a 300 MHz machine like that. My roommates and I used to run Red Hat on P233 machines back in the old days (the heady 90s, when pets.com stock was worth more than Citibank). The real restriction for you will be how many software packages you can install with just 1.5 Gigs of hard drive space. Better pick your window environment now, KDE or Gnome, since you really don't have room for both. Or you could go old school and just use Enlightenment...

he did say the amount of ram, but I don't think he was truthfull. He said 60 megs... but I'll bet a shiny penny that it is 64 megs of RAM.

EDIT: Maybe windows reports it as 60 because his on-board video uses 4 megs?

with those pc specs i'd use Dyna:Bolic its small fast and boots right off the CD no need to install anything. All it does is save a file on your hard drive for your settings. And you can access windblows from it too.

It is optimized to run on slower computers, turning it into a full media station: the minimum you need is a pentium1 or k5 PC 64Mb RAM and IDE CD-ROM, or a modded XBOX game console - and if you have more than one, you can easily do clusters.


Dyna:Bolic


at least check it out!!!

VectorLinux would run A-OK on that machine.
DamnSmall and Peanut should too.