Hello,

My specs:

Pentium 2, 300Mhz
3 Gigs of Harddrive
160 MB of RAM
Video card: Voodoo 3

I am interested in Xubuntu(there are two versions 6 and 7, which one would you recommend).

I have also heard of NetBSD, Deli, and Ubuntu lite.

Could you guys recommend some distros that are secure, easy and yet would be fast on this pc

Thanks

I run Debian on a similar box. How new are you to linux? The way I install Debian is to just install a base system (i.e. command prompt only), then use aptitude to install programs I want, including a lightweight gui (icewm), and lightweight applications like abiword (word processor), gnumeric (spreadsheet), syphleed-claws (email), etc. When I boot my machine, it's only using 34MB of RAM.

The light distros you mentioned above do similar things, i.e. use a lightweight window manager and lightweight applications by default.

A few other choices I've never used are Damn Small Linux and Puppy Linux.

Edit: You can also go to distrowatch and search. Enter "Old Computers" for distribution category and "i386" for architecture.

Zenwalk

Got to add this line to get the "too short" reply posted.

ok thanks for your input.

I am fairly new so I would like a gui to set it up for me

Perhaps when I am more experienced, I'll try debian

I'll also give zenwalk a try as well

thanks guys

But if choosing between xubuntu 6 and 7, which one is more recommended?

Typically, I would always take the newest stable version (which I think is 7.10) because it will have newer software and all the important security patches.

Vector Linux
http://www.vectorlinux.com/

DSL
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

Puppy Linux
http://www.puppylinux.org/user/viewpage.php?page_id=3

Slackware
http://www.slackware.com/

BeaFanatIX
http://bea.cabarel.com/

PCFluxBoxOS
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...ease_id=538615

Luit Linux
http://luitlinux.sarovar.org/

I used Slackware on a similar PC a while ago. It was quite stable.