Which Flavour/Version of Linux to Use??

[jbzeigler]

I recently obtained an old system.

Pentium 3
500 MHz
32mb ram
6 gb HDD

It's shameful - I know. I want to install Linux but I am unsure of what version of what flavour I should use. I know that Linux has different flavours but I am struggling to find where I can find out what version of what flavour will run with my old P.O.S. secondary system... Any advice or links are greatly appreciated.

[oz]

Check this link for options that might work for you:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/cof...re-2008-a.html

[rokytnji]

I installed Damn Small Linux Current on a Compaq 1540 DM, Pentium 144hz, 64 mb ram, 2 gig Hardrive and ended up with internet using a Xircom CEM-100 PCMCIA Cardbus. I don't know if your 32 MB ram will be sufficient for Damn Small but if you are interested I made a tutorial on How I did it here

Yet Another Technology Site: installation

Smart Boot Manager files can be had from here

Smart Boot Manager Download

[jayd512]

The minimum system requirements are a 486 processor and 8 MB of RAM. DSL has been demonstrated browsing the web with Dillo, running simple games and playing music on systems with a 486 processor and 16 MB of RAM.

You should be okay with your specs. While it won't exactly be flying along, you shouldn't run into many problems.

[Freston]

RAM is a much bigger problem than CPU. If you can add a little RAM, you will probably see a dramatic rise in performance for a relatively minor amount of money.
I've got an old 450Mhz machine that also came with 32MB RAM, but I added a little so it now has 160MB. It gives quite good performance as long as I don't let it do the heavy lifting stuff like compiling or run heavy apps like Openoffice.org.

Damn Small Linux will work on it, as will VectorLinux (light), Zenwalk and others.