Which distro for an old pII

TheApostate · 05-23-2004, 02:53 PM

Hi there folks,

I'm going to be a relative newbie to linux in the near future. I've last played around on linux, albeit briefly about 8or more years ago, so, ineffect I'm a newbie again

I've got an old PII, 196megs RAM and am going to be upgrading my HDD toan 80gig at least, thereby leavig the current 8gig HDD free for linux usage. I'd like some advice on which distro for normal home use and surfing the net would be most suitable. Thanks for any advice or suggestions you may have.

TheApostate

esher2292 · 05-23-2004, 02:58 PM

I think that a simple distro is Red Hat Linux 9. ftp.redhat.com and linuxiso.org are two download sources.

It is easy to install.

PengyDaPenguin · 05-23-2004, 03:18 PM

I have an older PII, similar specs (except with a 120GB drive) on which I am running Fedora Core 2 successfully. www.linuxiso.org is a good place to get this as well.

esher2292 · 05-23-2004, 04:23 PM

I'm not sure of my exact specs, but it only has 20 gigs and I have RH9 running smoothly except for my inet but that's not really important...

Mega Man X · 05-23-2004, 04:34 PM

Any distribution will do on that machine

. I'd say, Mandrake and Libranet are pretty good...

Linux.tar.gz · 05-23-2004, 04:36 PM

Install without trouble: Slack.

Reason Edited: Language - XavierP

penguin4 · 05-25-2004, 02:39 PM

also have PII 128mbram 40gb cdr cdburner 2 fdd 1.44/120ls w98 dwn sized rest is MDK-L 8.1. with gnome
as main cc. going fine. OOPs forgot psswd`d. thats a no
no. now need HELP!

Danielallan · 05-25-2004, 02:53 PM

I am running a PII with 128 MB RAM and a 4 GB hard Drive. I can run KDE with no problem, some apps are a little slow but nothing to bad. I also test websites with it and they render normal. I am a Slackware man because Slackware keeps in mind older PC's for their distro. Good hacking!

Sincerely,

Danielallan

synaptical · 05-25-2004, 02:56 PM

i have libranet on an old PII, it's great. very fast.