recommend a distro

[nerdman978]

NOTE: this is completely unrelated to my 30 days of linux

Anyway, my friend wants me to put Linux on his old old old old laptop if only to revive it and make it somewhat useful again. Cringe at the specs for a moment

Mobile Intel® Pentium® II microprocessor 300, 266 or 233 MHz
512-KB pipelined-burst SRAM
128-bit, hardware-accelerated PCI graphics card
and more info here (http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/pmojav/specs.htm)
and in addition he has Xircom 10/100 Network PC Card to get a megabit ethernet connection

any recommendations? I thought the laptop was a lost cause...but I promised my friend to "revive" it. :lolflag:

[oldos2er]

Did you mean 512 MB SRAM?

I'd probably try Slackware.

[nerdman978]

I copied and pasted directly from that page...I think that was a different thing...I think it has either 32 MB or 64 MB RAM

[smoker]

damn small linux should run on that ok:
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

[zmjjmz]

Good choices are:
Damn Small
DeLi
Puppy
The only thing I'm not sure about is the network card...

[swoll1980]

Ubuntu

[illu45]

Ubuntu

Xubuntu or Fluxbuntu might work. I doubt that gnome can run very well on 32MB of RAM, though. Personally, I would go with DSL or Puppy. I think Puppy even has a LiveCD version that you can try out.

[swoll1980]

Xubuntu or Fluxbuntu might work. I doubt that gnome can run very well on 32MB of RAM, though. Personally, I would go with DSL or Puppy. I think Puppy even has a LiveCD version that you can try out.

oops fluxbuntu thats what I was going for, I'm so used to typing Ubuntu it just came out

[MasterNetra]

I would suggest Xubuntu myself. Its purpose is to be able to run on Old Machines.

[szymon_g]

DSL or arch/debian + icewm

[cardinals_fan]

Zenwalk > Xubuntu. Just my 2¢.

[Ioky]

I don't know, but seems like Slax can be good for it

[SupaSonic]

Ubuntu with Openbox