Re: What Linux distro to use for old Intel machine, that fits on CDs?

RonB wrote:

raylopez99 wrote:

I have an old machine, not my main machine, nearly in mothballs that
somebody uses on occasion to surf the net and print a letter on a
recent model HP inkjet using OpenOffice as the word processor
program.  The machine is running on Windows 2000. The machine is an
Intel Pentium II, about 200 MHz clock, with about 500 MB RAM (or maybe
it's 225, I upgraded it but forgot what it was, but I'm pretty sure
it's 512 MB).  The C: hard drive is only 2 GB large--the only one for
the OS.  This was a popular configuration in the mid to late 90s so
I'm sure a lot of these machines exist in the world, so somebody must
have loaded Linux on one of them.

The machine has no DVD, only a CD reader.  It has a late 90s but
popular video card, forget the brand.

What Linux distro to use for this configuration?  I can, using another
PC, download a distro, but then I would have to burn it onto a CD or
CDs, so I would rather not do that--that is, I would rather get or buy
a Linux distro that is already burnt, in proper order, onto labeled
CDs to make installation easier.

Last time this question was asked I pointed to Vector Linux. I have used
Vector Linux -- not on a machine as old as yours, but one close to it.
Vector Linux Standard defaults to the Xface desktop -- a nicely
implemented version of it -- so it is not weighted down by KDE or Gnome.
You can buy a CD if you want for $25-27.

I don't use Anti-Virus or Anti-Malware software on my Linux computer. I
originally installed AVG but, since it found nothing, I uninstalled it
considering it a waste of time and space.

Vector Linux's website below:

http://www.vectorlinux.com/

The Standard 5.9 edition requires 128 Meg of RAM and... ah... 2.6 Gigs.

So I guess you would have to go with the Light Edition, which requires 64
Meg of RAM and a 2 Gig hard drive.

(Hell, send me an email and I'll dig up a "huge" 6 Gig hard drive and send
it.)


Don't waste your time Ron. Like you I also recommended Vector and was
completely ignored. Lopez is a waste of space, a complete idiot who brags
about how much his Microsoft shares are worth. Like we care!
.

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