Re: Best distro of Linux for lame hardware?

From: 7 (website_has_email_at_www.ecu.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: 11/26/04 

Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 13:31:08 GMT

thundercleets@ no_spam_here yahoo.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there a distro out there that will work at an acceptable speed in
> Xwindows on this kind of hardware?
>
> Pentium 166 mmx
> 96 MB RAM
> 6 GB drive
>
> Thanks in advance for your advice.
>
> Thundercleets

Almost any distro should work.
Though 96Mb RAM is sufficient, you might
be better off creating say a 256Mb swap space
on the hard disk for KDE to work and
trying any of the liveCD distros.
I like knoppix and mepis.
http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php
Old PCs may not have heir DMA working so if using knoppix for example
you need to turn off DMA by saying knoppix nodma at boot time.
Knoppix you can install in about 2.3Gb with the
command sudo knoppix-installer in a console window.
Mepis has its own installer and is about the same size
as knoppix after installation.

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