Please Suggest Linux OS To Install

[s.fox]

Hi,

I am faced with a conundrum of what Linux OS to install on a collection of really old hardware I cobbled together from a box that I found in my garage.

Concerning Specifications
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1. Intel Celeron 1.7 GHZ Processor
2. 384MB RAM

Given the specifications of the processor and RAM I was thinking about installing something lightweight like puppy linux. I was wondering what the community could suggest, or even advise me against installing puppy.

Thanks for any input

-Ash R

N.B Please note that this is just a path for me to learn something about light weight Linux OS's and I do not intend to use the machine for any serious work.

[DeadSuperHero]

I would recommend Slitaz. I don't remember how small it is, but it's really lightweight. Might be worth a shot.

By the way, I love your avatar.

[Greg]

I second SliTaz. It's lightweight, and has an innovative package manager/build service. It should run nicely on that machine.

[dragos240]

What about arch? Maybe? Well.... If it is i686

[.Maleficus.]

Arch. Lightweight, fast, best package manager (IMO), easy to install/configure. They have an awesome wiki if you run into problems and the Beginner's Guide makes installation super easy.

Otherwise, Gentoo, if you don't mind compiling. On that machine though, I don't think you'd want to, so I'd stick to Arch.

[Mehall]

Crunchbang will fit nicely on that. A smidgen slow if you run Firefox, but Opera would be great. If it has to be only FOSS, then use Chromium or something.

[Random-penguin]

You could try Xubuntu It Works good on my EeePc!

[dragos240]

You could try Xubuntu It Works good on my EeePc!

That's not so light anymore, jaunty really loaded it.

[bryonak]

I think your hardware is way too highend for Puppy or DamnSmall... I'm going to install the latter on a 144MHz 64MB RAM system soon

I'd recommend CrunchBang, a quite young yet very popular lightweight distro based on Ubuntu. It runs snappily on a Pentium3 (700Mhz) with 192MB RAM, so I think your system would be all right with it. Plus you get the whole Ubuntu repositories to install additional software.

[MaxIBoy]

I think your hardware is way too highend for Puppy or DamnSmall... I'm going to install the latter on a 144MHz 64MB RAM system soon

I'd recommend CrunchBang, a quite young yet very popular lightweight distro based on Ubuntu. It runs snappily on a Pentium3 (700Mhz) with 192MB RAM, so I think your system would be all right with it. Plus you get the whole Ubuntu repositories to install additional software.

Realize that CrunchBang == Ubuntu with a lighter window manager.

Try a Debian net-install CD without any packages selected.

Then run "apt-get install lxde" and you're all set.