OLD computer, WHAT DISTRO?

snype · 11-22-2003, 12:09 AM

Any good distro's out there with a gui that will work nicely with:
AMD athlon k-6 300mhz
128 MB ram
20 gig hard drive
32 mb nvidia tnt 2 pci vid card

Please leave all suggestions

Y0jiMb0 · 11-22-2003, 12:47 AM

Hi!
Maybe slack; it is quite economical and has many gui's to check

Regards

Zerodark · 11-22-2003, 12:50 AM

Yes, Slackware is a very good choice for a machine like that. With it running something like BlackBox or FluxBox it would work pretty well too.

colnago · 11-22-2003, 12:57 PM

I don't think you will have a problem with that setup, it is very straight forward. Your NIC/modem might be an issue. Why don't you try knoppix or morphix or some other cd boot distro and see if there are any problems. The hard drive is large enough, but the processor speed is at the low end. I would set up a system with minimal services on at boot (ie if you install Mandrake or something, you would be best to turn off some stuff to save resources).

Azmeen · 11-23-2003, 08:55 AM

I'd only recommend Slackware for everything 486 and above

e1000 · 11-23-2003, 10:10 PM

ha, you call that old, i got redhat 9 runing WITH GNOME on 233 mgz comp with 48 mb ram..

any distro will work, if your a new linux user try SuSE or Debian, if not go ahead for slack, or gentoo (ok gentoo install would take longer on that, but still within reason; less than a week)

PS; just dont expect a speed demon if you go for a bigger distro, things will go slow.

320mb · 11-24-2003, 04:01 AM

ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/...ions/slackware

you can get an older version of Slack here......have fun.

BrianNJ · 11-25-2003, 10:58 AM

i installed suse 8.2 on a similar box. boot times are forever, but once i get in with blackbox there aren't any problems.

Lindy · 11-25-2003, 09:25 PM

I have Vector Linux working nicely on my old laptop (300hz pII 64mb ram) its zippy quick on the old beast. VL is based on Slackware so its not as user friendly as say Redhat, but there again we all need some learning chalenges to keep things from getting too boring.

dkaplowitz · 11-25-2003, 09:39 PM

Dude! OpenBSD.

I find the BSDs scream on older PCs. IMO most Linux distros have grown too resource intensive for really old PCs. Try it, I think you'll be pleased with its performance.

2damncommon · 11-25-2003, 11:42 PM

About any distro will work on that PC.
What you feel is too slow is the question.
Using something like ICE as your default desktop rather than KDE or Gnome (you can still install them and use their apps) should let you install and run any distro you want.
Vector and Peanut are both nice slim Linux distros. Maybe worth a try.