Distro for Celeron architecture?

Karnel · 08-03-2018, 11:35 AM

i am looking for a Distro that will work whit my old CPU , its a Intel Celeron 1.1Ghz , its bacisly the Pentium III but not really
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_370

I really like kolibryos (its not really linux) but idk if it will work whit the Celeron architecture?

Does slackware 10.1 work whit the Celeron architecture?

What are some good distor for this architecture
Also 64mb of ram , and i really need it to be live

jefro · 08-03-2018, 12:47 PM

To be exact, the best solution would be to identify two things. Both cpu model and level and the supporting chipset will have to be known. You generally can't go wrong with one of the minimal distro's designed for 32 bit. Antix, puppy, slacko, austrumi, slitaz and others may work. PAE support may also be useful to know. Then we'd like to know ram amount.

I'd think that older slackware ought to work. The minimum hardware requirements should be online someplace.

Karnel · 08-03-2018, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by jefro

To be exact, the best solution would be to identify two things. Both cpu model and level and the supporting chipset will have to be known. You generally can't go wrong with one of the minimal distro's designed for 32 bit. Antix, puppy, slacko, austrumi, slitaz and others may work. PAE support may also be useful to know. Then we'd like to know ram amount.

I'd think that older slackware ought to work. The minimum hardware requirements should be online someplace.

Thank you , i will look more into it , also i will probably go whit puppy

jefro · 08-03-2018, 02:43 PM

Have fun, try a few and let us know how it goes.

Thanks for the report on the Assemby OS.

Opps, I missed that you put ram amount on already.

Some of these minimal distro's can be helped a bit with more ram of course. Using a swap file/partition can assist. Some of the live distro's mount swap partitions when they find it if if it was from a different install.

Timothy Miller · 08-03-2018, 07:44 PM

If you can find it on craigslist or something, upgrading to max ram (probably 1 GB, maybe 512 if it was a budget board or possibly even 2 GB if it was one of the very last 370 boards made) would definitely help...

fatmac · 08-04-2018, 05:25 AM

Most text based distros should work, but not many GUI based ones; see if TinyCore will run on it.
http://www.tinycorelinux.net/

Mill J · 08-04-2018, 08:32 AM

Wow 64mb RAM, a $5 raspberry pi zero has 512mb. I thought 512mb was very small on an old Compaq pc, although AntiX and puppy ran fine.

Seems to me people had more patience back then

DavidMcCann · 08-04-2018, 09:58 AM

Tiny Core is supposed to run in 64MB. I think that's the only option: AntiX needs at least twice that.

anticapitalista · 08-04-2018, 11:47 AM

Unless you get more RAM, stick to kolibryos (if it works).

zeebra · 08-07-2018, 02:44 PM

Try DSL (damn small linux).