Old Computer RedHat 7.X

fluked · 03-01-2004, 11:54 AM

Hello,

I have an Old Pentium 133mhz computer 3.2Gig hard drive 16 megs ram I was wondering if I am able to put RedHat Linux on it So I can start learning linux, with the X windows or KDE something graphical not command line mode. Just Minimum hardware requirments I can't find them anywhere

Thanks alot

fluked.

fluked · 03-01-2004, 11:58 AM

Or is there any type of Linux that I can run with 16megs ran with an X windows system?

Jelle · 03-01-2004, 12:00 PM

16 megs is too little for kde. you could install any decent distro on it, but do not expect things like KDE or gnome to be usable. Perhaps a lightweigth window manager like twm is usable.
why dont you want a non-graphical computer? It is definitely the fastes way to learn linux.

fluked · 03-01-2004, 12:04 PM

It's for my kids they're young and they still want to be able to have a "microsoft feel" on the computer So im guessing I should go with Deli Linux ?

Jelle · 03-01-2004, 12:41 PM

Never heard of that.
The minmum hardware requirements are a compatible processor and chipset. That is all. For intel, that means a 386 or better.
However, the more exotic, old or obscure hardware you want to install linux on, the more problems you have to solve for yourself. If you find a distro that esp. serves the older computer segment, then by all means go for it.
The easiest way out is probably get more memory to put in. I had no troubles running kde on a pentium 166 with 64 mb memory, but that was 4 years back or more.

michaelk · 03-01-2004, 12:54 PM

Try slackware. All you need is 16MB RAM.
www.slackware.org

Also take a look at www.distrowatch.com for other small distros

TexasDex · 03-01-2004, 06:49 PM

Redhat 8 runs rather slowly on a PII 233MHz 96MB RAM. I think that's about the minimum that you could run that verstion of the distro on, but 7.2 might work better. I have 6.1 installed on a PI (100MHz) 32MB RAM white box and it actually runs pretty well. My guess is that 7.2 is your best bet.