What distro would work on Pentium 1 75 MHz machine??
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What distro would work on Pentium 1 75 MHz machine??
Hi all,
I was wondering what distribution would work best on a couple of Penitum 1 75 MHz machines I have back at home. The one has 48 Megabtyes of RAM and the other has 24 Megabytes of Ram with each having a 1 Meg Video card on the motherboard. I'd like some simple gui to use on both of them along with just browsing the internet. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks.
I f you can lay your hands on mandrake 9.0 it will work on your p1 as i use to run one with man 9.0...
i had 64 meg of ram in the end but that was all my machine would handle...32 was ok but slow...
earlier versions are what you need and not readily available..
pity your not 5 minutes away as io ahve a couple of old distro's
anotherone is susse 6.2 as it was installed on 486 dx4-100 and ran well also...
had others but would have to look for them to remember what they ran on...
as for current versions, well your going to have fun till you find one...
Thanks everyone for replying to my message. I'm currnetly off to college, but will look at these distributions and decide on which one to use. Thanks again for the reply.
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