Which Distro should I install?

[Porfido]

Hello everyone,

I have an old laptop. I'd like to install on it a linux environment

The computer is from 2001, it was orginally running windows Me.

The specifics are:

Pentium III 933Mhz
640K System Ram Passed
119K Extended Ram Passed
8M video share memory passed
20 Gb HDD

Unfortunately I couldn't make it to know the Ram capacity, because now the laptop is broke down, I tried to open it but it was to complicated to get to the ram slot. Those are the data I got from the boot screen.

I tried to install Debian but it seems it's not working.

So I was thinking to install or Puppy Linux either Lubuntu.
What do you suggest me? Is my old laptop good enough for this distro?

Thank you very much!

[sgosnell]

Puppy maybe, Ubuntu no way. If Debian won't run on it, then Ubuntu certainly won't.

[jayd512]

Hello there!

Without knowing a RAM capacity, there;s really no advice we could give.
Most computers from 2001 had at least 198 or 256 RAM, though...
Puppy or antiX?

[MASONTX]

Try the distrowatch.com search for older computers, but the suggestion of AntiX would be my first choice anyway.

[sgosnell]

He posted the RAM, 759K total. Less than a megabyte, that's what used to be installed in old 8086 computers, because Bill Gates (or so I heard) thought nobody would ever need more than 640K of memory. Most computers had 1MB installed, but you had to use a kludge to access the extended memory above 640K, mostly for use as a ramdisk.

It's entirely possible that the RAM total is incorrect, but apparently that's all that is being recognized.

[jayd512]

It's entirely possible that the RAM total is incorrect, but apparently that's all that is being recognized.

That's what I was thinking... it's the fact that he has a P3 that is throwing me, there.