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by **Xtasys** on Fri Mar 24, 2006 8:01 pm

i have a pentium 200 mhz
32 ram
4 gb hdd

and i run and old version of Slackware (updated) of course i uninstall all programs that i will not use. it runs perfect.

by **alien360** on Sun Mar 26, 2006 7:39 am

Well I use DSL, damn small linux, really nice distro, I have one old pc 200Mhz, 90ram, 1Gb hdd and it runs just perfect http://nbu.bg.cx/linux-box , but this is not the only one distro you may tray. Check this site http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions/ I think that you find what are you looking for Cool

by **radky** on Sun Mar 26, 2006 12:10 pm

Pentium 333MHZ
64RAM
2 gb hdd

I run old version of Debian...updated. It runs perfect. Wink

by **reikor0x** on Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:17 am

With FreeBSD you can have in small space full linux support.
I suggest FreeBSD <5.0

FreeBSD 4.6 should be good for you.

by **snakez** on Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:09 pm

try to use SUSE linux

by **mobes** on Fri Mar 31, 2006 6:16 am

I've ran vectorlinux and trustix on really old machines. Vectorlinux's gui didn't look to appealing but trustix worked well for a server.

by **Starmax** on Fri Apr 14, 2006 9:23 pm

I have an old puter that im using now for everything,,Amd 751 500mhz.,,160mb ram,,2 HDD's 40gb=C:\ 17gb=D:\.

I run win2000pro on C:\ and ubuntu on D:\ and I use the Grub bootloader.

Dont ask me how but I have DSL and both system's scream,,The graphic's are very nice but as a few other's have said for that small a system,,id go with the damnsmalllinux.... Very Happy

by **sigchld** on Sat Apr 22, 2006 7:50 pm

how about live CD? Razz

you could always run away with what you have to tamper on your programming sh1t if you accidentally siphoned your ram Razz

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