best linux distro to use on a 233mhz?

I have installed redhat 9.0 but its slow , very slow

I need a good distro best to use when learning linux and also some GUI
its 233mhz with 128ram
thank you

I've heard that Vector linux is very good for older hardware. (http://www.ibiblio.org/vectorlinux/)

There are reviews available here:

http://www.madpenguin.org/article.php?sid=62
http://www.madpenguin.org/article.php?sid=69
http://www.btvillarin.com/reviews/ve...ux3.2/full.php

thank you ill give it a shot

don't use KDE or Gnome with that setup, it's too slow. use a GUI window manager instead (IceWM, fluxbox, windowmaker, etc.)

so i can use redhat 9.0 but use ICEWM,?

Synaptical's idea may be better than my suggestion above. Using IceWM would be a lot easier to try than re-installing from scratch. You can use multiple graphical environments. I have KDE, Gnome, IceWM, and Enlightenment installed on my Mandrake system. IceWM loads fast and is very light on resources. It isn't as easy to configure as KDE, but you'll probably learn more that way.

sure. i think IceWM even comes with redhat.

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actually, i meant using it with vector as in your idea (or with another lean distro). but red hat might not be too slow with IceWM. i'd test that first, and if it was laggy, i'd start from scratch with what might be a better distro for that machine.

Also make sure you are running as few as daemons as necessary
in your run level.

dude_228,

I have Slackware 8.1 with BlackBox as a GUI on a P133 with 32MB of RAM (128 MB swap). It works nice for me ( loads faster than win xp on AMD 800 with 320MB of RAM - 35 sec. for prompt and another 12 sec. for GUI).

wow amazing
and i taught my old p166 is hopeless
now i might just try linux
i need to learn linux
asap
and easy howto guideS?
thank you man

I had the same problem on my old computer (discount crap from 1999 - Celeron 400 and 64MB RAM I think). It was slow as hell with Red Hat and Mandrake. Slackware ran fast, but unfortunately I'm either not smart enough or not masochistic enough to get Slack to do what I need to do. Right now I'm running Knoppix with Fluxbox as my window manager (forget KDE and Gnome for your antique computer), and everything works. It's almost as fast as Slack and a hell of a lot faster than RH or Mandrake.

As for window managers, blackbox and fluxbox are the fastest I've seen, but they're ultraminimalist. IceWM is a little slower but a little more featureful too. It reminds me of using Windows 3.1 10 years ago. You have to find the balance between fanciness/eye-candy and minalism/speed that suits you (and it sure as hell won't be KDE or Gnome on that old thing).

I thought daemons didn't take up any processes??

hehe, je suis tres stupid
whats a daemon?