Re: Choosing Linux distro for Compaq Presario 1200
- From: General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 18:33:26 -0500
On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 06:24:39 -0800, s.dondelinger wrote:
Just for kicks, I purchased a Compaq Presario 1200 at a garage sale for
$20. It's 500 mhz AMD processor and 64 meg's are sportin' a 5 year old
version of Windows 98. I thought this might be a good candidate for
trying a Linux distro instead of becoming a vintage windows OS
enthusiast. Any sugestions? My goal is to upgrade the modem for wi-fi,
cut my teeth on Linux, tune it for all the bare-bones necesities with
an emphasis on text and security, and of course, boast of my frugality.
Unless you upgrade the memory you won't be able to run any full
distribution. The one distribution that will work reasonably well with a
64M machine is Damn Small Linux. DSL has been tuned for underpowered
machines like yours, it will work well right out of the box. If you up the
RAM you can run just about anything. I have a 450MHz PII with 384M that
works fine with Fedora Core 4, I also gave my old 500MHz PIII laptop, also
with 384M, to my sister. I put FC5 on that laptop and it works very well
for e-mail, web browsing, and other light tasks. That laptop using WiFi
and it is running Gnome.
.
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