Best distro for current requirement

arun79 · 06-24-2003, 04:13 AM

I have a Pentium 133 MHz with 64MB RAM and a 2.1GB Hard disk. What is the best distro for me to use? Some people tel me that Red Hat will be too slow. Is this true?

Please help.

Poetics · 06-24-2003, 04:16 AM

It really depends on what you want to use it for; if you're going to use it as your main desktop machine, pretty much any distro would be too slow (web browsing, et cetera). Are you going for CLI or GUI?

MasterC · 06-24-2003, 04:26 AM

Look into slack or gentoo, both capitalize on speed on slower systems.

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arun79 · 06-24-2003, 05:13 AM

I want to use my PC as a firewall/proxy/print server for my home network. I read that this will work even with very old PCs.

But will an old PC that is slower not affect the speed of access to the net?

Poetics · 06-24-2003, 05:39 AM

If you're routing, you're not looking at much of any slowdown, unless you're printing at the same time. It takes something like a 386 processor to route packets with very small lag. Printing will suck up the CPU cycles, so that's the only time you'll really notice anything.

I'd say go for something simpler than a full distro, though. If you poke around (or ask those more knowledgeable than I), you'll hear about some great CD- or floppy-based router/proxy/print distros

MasterC · 06-24-2003, 05:46 AM

http://www.toms.net/rb/

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MasterC · 06-24-2003, 05:49 AM

Or, for selection:
http://www.coyotelinux.com/
http://lrp.steinkuehler.net/
http://www.jimweller.net/jim/lfw/
http://www.trash.net/~jgs/floppy_linux.html
and
http://www.linuxrouter.org/

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grym · 07-19-2003, 01:38 AM

Slackware could do all that you require without the long compile time of Gentoo (especially long considering your hardware i would imagine)