old.. old computer

**Kindle** · 02-20-2005

I have a computer here that my uncle gave to me.. we'll just call it a fixer-upper ( pentium 200 MHZ, 32 or 64 MB of ram, 8 Gb hard drive, really poor graphics card, you get the point) I am looking for a distro to put on it, I would really prefer the distro have a GUI. Any suggestions? Thank you!

**mechmaster** · 02-20-2005

if you have a pentium II processor or better, i would stick arch linux with xfce4 on it personally. Otherwise maybe http://distrowatch.com may also help you. hope this helps.

**Ethyriel** · 02-20-2005

Mech, I think the P2 started at 300mhz, though there was a 266mhz L2 cacheless Celeron which is i686. The PPro was also i686, but they're rather rare. So that's more than likely just a Pentium chip and won't work with Arch, though I think someone's maintaining the i586 repository again.

As such, I'd be looking Damn Small or Vector, if not Debian or Slackware. Beatrix could be an option, but Gnome on a system that old... not unless you upgrade the RAM, and maybe not even then.

Of course there are others, these are just ones I've tried (besides Beatrix). Check Mech's Distrowatch link for others like Deli.

**drakebasher** · 02-21-2005

Originally Posted by Ethyriel

but Gnome on a system that old... not unless you upgrade the RAM, and maybe not even then.

I have Gnome with Fedora Core 3 on a 130MHz PII with 190Mb RAM. It's just a little slow, but completely usable.

**benjamin20** · 02-21-2005

go for a gentoo with xorg and xforce4.2. that should make an operationg system optimized for what you have and still provide an nice gui without breaking that 8gb limit you have.

**Ethyriel** · 02-22-2005

My bad, it looks like the P2 Klamath core debuted at 233 and up to 300Mhz, while Deschutes started at 333mhz.

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