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bks
March 9th, 2007, 03:29 PM
I have an old Compaq Armada 1550 laptop (P133/90/1.2) and I'm wondering if there is a distro of linux that will install and run on it. Any suggestions?
Rumor
March 9th, 2007, 04:16 PM
Yes, several.
Arch Linux www.archlinux.org will fly on it
Puppy Linux www.puppylinux.org should run on it
Damn Small Linux www.damnsmalllinux.org should also run on it
jdhore
March 9th, 2007, 04:21 PM
Yes, several.
Arch Linux www.archlinux.org will fly on it
Puppy Linux www.puppylinux.org should run on it
Damn Small Linux www.damnsmalllinux.org should also run on it

Damn Small Linux will probably run REALLY well on it...i tried it on an old 486 i had laying around with 16MB of RAM and no hard driver and DSL ran really fast...about as fast as Ubuntu does on my 2.4GhZ P4 with 768MB RAM
melancholeric
March 9th, 2007, 04:26 PM
Archlinux I believe was compiled for 686, so it's not going to "fly" on that machine.

Maybe try vectorlinux.
bks
March 9th, 2007, 04:45 PM
Thanks, it seemed like such a waste to load any Win9x on it, but all the Linux distros I have need 2-3 gigs of HDD space.
K.Mandla
March 9th, 2007, 08:16 PM
Archlinux I believe was compiled for 686, so it's not going to "fly" on that machine.
I'm afraid that's true.

Lowarch (http://www.lowarch.org/), on the other hand, is compiled for pre-i686, and will do the same thing for it as Arch does for anything i686 and up. So long as you don't install an entire Gnome desktop, you should be able to squeeze it in under 1.2Gb.

And if you want to milk it for as much speed as you can get, I can't give a bigger recommendation than for Arch on the whole. (I hear frugalware is good too, but I haven't tried that one yet.)
RAV TUX
March 10th, 2007, 03:38 AM
I have an old Compaq Armada 1550 laptop (P133/90/1.2) and I'm wondering if there is a distro of linux that will install and run on it. Any suggestions?
Wolvix Cub 1.0.5 (http://wolvix.org/node/373)
charlie85254
March 11th, 2007, 05:24 PM
DSL all the way for a older machine like that. It will literally fly and has great support.
jinx099
March 11th, 2007, 11:11 PM
I bet debian would run fine on it, just dont install gnome or KDE on it.
igknighted
March 13th, 2007, 02:48 AM
If you picked your packages right Slack would probably work well.
M_the_C
March 13th, 2007, 08:18 AM
There is also DeLi (http://delili.lens.hl-users.com/).