I found this old dell in my closet yesterday. I want to install linux on it because any modern version of windows would never run on it. I need a good light weight distro. I've tried arch and couldn't get it set up. I might try again. I want to try Damn Small Linux, but I would like to hear your suggestions first.
Specs:
384MB RAM
PIII - I think 700MHz but I can't remember.
10 GB hard drive
DSL is great dor something like that. I had one even older and it worked fine. You might as well try it anyway.
[url=http://crunchbanglinux.org/]Crunchbang Linux[/url] might be a good choice. The on-the-CD size (427M - 673M) itself is still much bigger than DSL, but you said that it is for a hard drive, so I'm still going to recommend it.
Now the good things: It is based on Ubuntu, so you can use all of its packages. However, it runs Openbox and only a few processes, so I imagine it [i]runs[/i] lightweight. Also, it looks very nice and is very easy to work with.
I would definitely give it a look and see if it runs well.
[QUOTE=Bionic Apple;16823087][url=http://crunchbanglinux.org/]Crunchbang Linux[/url] might be a good choice. The on-the-CD size (427M - 673M) itself is still much bigger than DSL, but you said that it is for a hard drive, so I'm still going to recommend it.
Now the good things: It is based on Ubuntu, so you can use all of its packages. However, it runs Openbox and only a few processes, so I imagine it [i]runs[/i] lightweight. Also, it looks very nice and is very easy to work with.
I would definitely give it a look and see if it runs well.[/QUOTE]
This looks awesome, I'm totally going to try this tomorrow, my laptop is so slow and keeps overheating every 10 minutes if I have lots of CPU/Memory usage on a warm day, thanks!
[QUOTE=Bionic Apple;16823087][url=http://crunchbanglinux.org/]Crunchbang Linux[/url] might be a good choice. The on-the-CD size (427M - 673M) itself is still much bigger than DSL, but you said that it is for a hard drive, so I'm still going to recommend it.
Now the good things: It is based on Ubuntu, so you can use all of its packages. However, it runs Openbox and only a few processes, so I imagine it [i]runs[/i] lightweight. Also, it looks very nice and is very easy to work with.
I would definitely give it a look and see if it runs well.[/QUOTE]
Hmmm... That looks really nice. I'll give it a try. Oh shit I forgot, I'm out of CD's. I hope this thing supports USB booting...
SliTaz Linux is the world's smallest distro. Only 28 mb, boots on the RAM.
Really nice and fast.
That computer will not boot from USB. Computers didn't start booting from USB until around 2005.
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;17180776]SliTaz Linux is the world's smallest distro. Only 28 mb, boots on the RAM.
Really nice and fast.[/QUOTE]
Yeah but SliTaz sucks.
[QUOTE]Yeah but SliTaz sucks. [/QUOTE]
Indeed.
See if you can patch the scheduler of whatever you choose to replace the scheduler with BFS. It's fucking pew-pew-pew fast.
Dang! I'm DLing crunchbang right now, this looks good.
It's basically lightweight made to look nice. Like my Arch box :D.
At my school there's a system like OP's running Ubuntu, used by a kid that found out how to change themes.
I had to fix the static IP settings on that machine because the sysadmin requested me to as we got a new modem.
It was slow to the point where I almost started raging.
Begged the sys admin if he or I could arch it so if I ever had to fix it again it wouldn't be as slow as steaming dog crap
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