Distro for an older Laptop
 

Ive come across and old Pentium 2 233 Compaq Presario, with 64 megs of RAM. Just wondering, what distro would be best for this one? I would like to use FluxBox as the GUI, if it doesnt choke it :D Looking for something thats not extremely difficult, on the lines of Mandrake or Red Hat, not sure if those will run good on it though.


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T3h Cowboy

what else are you lookin at runnin on it? I like debian myself... use the netinstall and it only installs what you want. nice light and with the apt-get feature you can un/install stuff REALLY EASY..

IMHO. (no flamin) ;)

Slack will run good.

I would like to be able to do email, web browsing, and such. Do a bit of html. Basic stuff. Have a work station that I can use from anywhere. I also need it to run wine so I can use HLSW.

Well, Im definatly going to look at that. Thanks for the advice.

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t3h Cowboy

I had a p233 with 96 MB RAM, so I did a custom install of RH8, and only selected what I would use. I left off KDE/Gnome etc and just installed X11. After install, I went back and installed IceWM for my GUI, mozilla, and a few other gui apps. That machine ran like a champ - with Icewm it was almost, if not as responsive as my P866/384MB with RH8/KDE.

I also had an old ThinkPad 755cd (486/DX100, 40 MB RAM) and installed slack 9 without a gui and it ran OK.

The moral of the story is, use any distro you're used to, but remove all the bloatware, use a light WM, such as Ice, fvwm, etc. and even old machines can be reused for lite workstations, just don't expect much.

Ive used Slackware a bit, really dived into Red Hat 9 due to the fact Im running a CS server off it, and having a great deal of fun with that. Basic workstation is just what I need.

Ive almost finished downloading Vector, will install it when its done. Thanks for all the help guys :)

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