Looking for a compact OS

[awelsh]

Heres the deal, in a week or two ill be getting myself a extra monitor for my laptop. So while im at it I have 3 old pc's lying about in the garage, cant use them at the moment becuase everyone in the house has laptops and we threw the old CRT screen away becuase they were crap :P

The specs on them are roughly as follows:

PC1- 128MB RAM, 20GB HDD, Pentium III, not sure about MHZ, CD Drive only
PC2- 256MB RAM, 20GB HDD, Pentium II, not sure about MHZ(its same as pc1, same case, only difference is more RAM and dvd drive)
PC3- 512MB RAM, 70GB HDD, Pentium 4(I think) again not sure about MHZ

I dont have a clue if theres a problem with 2 of them but I had this before, when I hooked PC2 and 3 up to a monitor,keyboard,mouse etc.. They turned on fine but then just made constant beeping noises. Im pretty sure it was a fault with the items attatched to them because the two of them did it.

Im looking for a decent OS for the 128mb RAM machine, ive got xp on both of the others and it works fine. Well it did when they were put away anyway, not sure what state their in now.

Ive got a copy of windows NT 4.0 here, so I suppose I could use that, but does anyone have any suggestions? Id like a change from windows and I could use it as a test machine I suppose.

Thanks

[Flisker]

nearly any Linux OS will do :P or windows 95 :P

[Recursion]

Damn Small Linux

[awelsh]

nearly any Linux OS will do :P or windows 95 :P

Like hell will I be using 95 :P is be using NT as a last resort lol, its got XP on there now, but from when I remember having it, it was slow as hell.


Damn Small Linux

Will have a look at that now

anyone got any more suggestions? +rep to you two

[Josh-H]

Ubuntu should round fairly decently.

[awelsh]

Ubuntu should round fairly decently.

I have got a CD for that and i took a look on the ubuntu website and it says you need 256MB RAM

EDIT: also just noticed I burnt Ubuntu onto a DVD disk -.- so ill have to download it again if it will work :P

[scottish]

I ran ubuntu on a laptop with 220 mb ram or something and it ran crap :P

[awelsh]

I ran ubuntu on a laptop with 220 mb ram or something and it ran crap :P

Ahh right, proberly wont bother with it then

[Calon]

Netbooks run Ubuntu and work well. They have like 99mb RAM or something terrible

[N!ck]

Netbooks run Ubuntu and work well. They have like 99mb RAM or something terrible

Make that 512MB or 1GB ;).

[awelsh]

Netbooks run Ubuntu and work well. They have like 99mb RAM or something terrible

Thanks, but I don't think it will as the website says 256MB :(


Make that 512MB or 1GB ;).

Thanks

[Jordy]

I wouldn't try Ubuntu, it's meant to run on about 512MB, like someone said, it's not much good on 256MBs.

I'd look for Windows 95 and if not I'd go for Damn Small Linux or Puppy Linux.

[awelsh]

I wouldn't try Ubuntu, it's meant to run on about 512MB, like someone said, it's not much good on 256MBs.

I'd look for Windows 95 and if not I'd go for Damn Small Linux or Puppy Linux.

Whys everyone saying 95 :P IM sure it could run 2000 pretty fine, it originally had 98 on there, till I updated to XP lol

Ill take a look at Puppy Linux now :) Just finished downloading Damn Small Linux

+rep to whoever I can, if you don't get one its because I need to spread :(

[lolwut]

Have you tried Xubuntu? It's a variant of Ubuntu built for lower specification machines. Meaning that it needs less RAM and CPU speed to run well.
I use it on a Intel Celeron laptop, 600Mhz and 128 RAM. It's slow to boot but it runs well.

Link: http://www.xubuntu.com/

Or you can use Damn Small Linux like ***** suggested. That only takes about 50mb of HDD space and ran on my laptop.

[awelsh]

Have you tried Xubuntu? It's a variant of Ubuntu built for lower specification machines. Meaning that it needs less RAM and CPU speed to run well.
I use it on a Intel Celeron laptop, 600Mhz and 128 RAM. It's slow to boot but it runs well.

Link: http://www.xubuntu.com/

Or you can use Damn Small Linux like ***** suggested. That only takes about 50mb of HDD space and ran on my laptop.

Thanks, think ill either be putting puppy linux or windows NT 4.0 on there.

Or I might just gut the two machines and put the HDD, DVD drives etc.. in the 3rd computer.