Comments on: Operating systems for really, really old computers

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:05:55 +0000

Я There are distros smaller then 50MB
check out the section for distros under 50MB in size
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=575456

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:58:44 +0000

Ahmad yeah the ones I checked all booted from the CD, they call them Live CD’s, very practical and you have the option of installing them on a flash memory.

By: Я

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:54:29 +0000

Sorry just noticed that I posted the same link as Lamya did. Worth a try since it got two votes! ;)

Lamya, didn’t know you’re a geek in hiding.

By: Я

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:53:00 +0000

The ’smallest’ Linux distro is Damn Small Linux (DSL) which is only 50MB in size. I use it on my pen drive or ext. HD to recover windows systems from crashes.

Light n neat.

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org

Ubuntu is too clunky for that sort of PC specs. A full distro will seriously slow down that PC, so look for the ‘lite’ versions.

Debian is good too worked well on an old Dell C series laptop (PIII w/256 RAM).

By: Ahmad

Ahmad — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:51:50 +0000

some Linux OS can run from flash memory or bootable CD have any of you tried that?

By: Mhm

Mhm — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:36:18 +0000

What about ubuntu ??? :S

http://www.ubuntu.com check it out

By: holla

holla — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:02:41 +0000

Hello i can’t read. Mark did u try Ubuntu?

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:34:58 +0000

Yeah I read a lot of positive reviews about ubuntu but it just was too much for this old computer to handle.

By: TRiPLE M

TRiPLE M — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:30:04 +0000

I use ubuntu which is the best…its easy to use and looks cool.

By: Abdullah

Abdullah — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 06:32:26 +0000

coool , I should try it sometimes

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 05:41:28 +0000

UBuntu was actually the system I had installed on the computer awhile back and it was very slow with really long boot times and softwares taking forever to launch.

By: لمياء الحالمة

لمياء الحالمة — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 05:36:58 +0000

I still have (what you should really call it old) a working pentium II 366 mhz 18GB Thinkpad notebook, running SuSE Linux and IBM mainframe emulator. :)

You could try another distro called Damn Small linux

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/download.html

By: Moey

Moey — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 02:03:16 +0000

nice work

By: Weld El-ma6aba

Weld El-ma6aba — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:57:08 +0000

did you try RedHat or UBuntu? they are the best in my opinion

By: nxman

nxman — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 23:31:47 +0000

I’m Running Linux Ubuntu and it rocks!