Gateway 2000 linux distro
I have a gateway 2000 that runs 95. It does not like to boot from disk, it barely has 32 mb of ram and it's just old. I need a good distro of linux for it
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Software cannot solve hardware problems. If the computer is "just old," Linux will not make it new again.
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I do not know of a modern Linux distro that will run well on a 1995 computer with 32mb ram. Perhaps another forum reader can assist.
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DSL - http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/download.html *may* because it is lightweight.
Or better yet Linux from scratch using an old kernel. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ |
According to the Linux timeline you're looking for a distro which supports a kernel version of around or near 2.0.x, 2.2.x, or *maybe* 2.4.x. LK 2.0 was released in Q1 of 1996.
http://www.linux.org/info/linux_timeline.html Slackware 8 runs on kernel 2.2 so get your hands on a copy of that. Try google searches: linux kernel 2.2 distro linux kernel 2.4 distro And you'll possibly find other distros which will satisfy your requirements. |
I found a mirror with old slack distros in it. Keep going backwards in version until you find a suitable version for your machine starting at slackware 8.
http://slackware.cs.utah.edu/pub/slackware/ |
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