Gateway 2000 linux distro

afullmetalwar · 08-20-2010, 07:09 PM

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

snowday · 08-20-2010, 07:25 PM

Software cannot solve hardware problems. If the computer is "just old," Linux will not make it new again.

afullmetalwar · 08-20-2010, 08:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by snowpine

Software cannot solve hardware problems. If the computer is "just old," Linux will not make it new again.

i know, but that's not the issue, i need a distro for it. I am converting all my computers to linux.

snowday · 08-20-2010, 09:24 PM

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.

sag47 · 08-20-2010, 09:29 PM

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/

sag47 · 08-20-2010, 09:42 PM

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.

sag47 · 08-20-2010, 09:47 PM

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/