Best Linux distro for a K6-2 350Mhz with 128mb ram?

[batmang]

anyone know what the best linux distro would be for a k6-2 350 with 128mb of ram and a 10gb hd?

this is going to be my garage pc for streaming music through shoutcast and general web browsing.

 

[mundane]

If you're just streaming and web browsing, Ubuntu should work for you (I've got it on a 400 Mhz, it's slow but bearable). distrowatch.com includes listings on many, many different distros, and there must be one that suits your purpose.

 

[Maetryx]

I used to have Slackware on a similarly aged machine.

 

[Cheetah8799]

If you want something quick and bare-bones, you could try the Damn Small Linux distro. bootable from CD. Would run fine on that rig.

http://damnsmalllinux.org/

May not have enough features, but it might be a start. you could also install direct to hard drive and go from there.

 

[jfall]

slackware, you may also consider freeBSD (not linux, but close enough)

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: diegoalcatraz
If you're just streaming and web browsing, Ubuntu should work for you (I've got it on a 400 Mhz, it's slow but bearable). distrowatch.com includes listings on many, many different distros, and there must be one that suits your purpose.

It's possible to do a minimal install of Ubuntu with just a lightweight Windows Manager like Fluxbox or XFCE. Those would run much, much better than Gnome or KDE on that system.

 

[batmang]

very true blue.. i think i may give that a try.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

I really like DamnSmallLinux, but its pretty limited. You should be able to fit Ubuntu on there, it'd probably be best. Never tried Slackware, but I've heard it can run well on old systems.

Go here too,

http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/index.php

 

[KoolDrew]

Debian.

 

[redbeard1]

Vector linux

 

[Hacp]

I have a similar system with a celeron 550 and 200MB of ram running windows XP just fine

 

[mundane]

Originally posted by: BlueWeasel

Originally posted by: diegoalcatraz
If you're just streaming and web browsing, Ubuntu should work for you (I've got it on a 400 Mhz, it's slow but bearable). distrowatch.com includes listings on many, many different distros, and there must be one that suits your purpose.

It's possible to do a minimal install of Ubuntu with just a lightweight Windows Manager like Fluxbox or XFCE. Those would run much, much better than Gnome or KDE on that system.

Thanks, I'll look into that (PC is intended for wife's g-mother). Coming from an MS background, changing the window manager is a foreign concept =)

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: diegoalcatraz

Originally posted by: BlueWeasel

Originally posted by: diegoalcatraz
If you're just streaming and web browsing, Ubuntu should work for you (I've got it on a 400 Mhz, it's slow but bearable). distrowatch.com includes listings on many, many different distros, and there must be one that suits your purpose.

It's possible to do a minimal install of Ubuntu with just a lightweight Windows Manager like Fluxbox or XFCE. Those would run much, much better than Gnome or KDE on that system.

Thanks, I'll look into that (PC is intended for wife's g-mother). Coming from an MS background, changing the window manager is a foreign concept =)

Actually, there was a pretty good guide on doing a minimal Ubuntu install with an alternate WM like XFCE. I found it several months over in the How-To Section of the Ubuntu Forums.

 

[Nothinman]

128M of memory is going to be painful no matter which distro you try, get some more memory.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
128M of memory is going to be painful no matter which distro you try, get some more memory.

Not true, I ran DSL on my lappy with 16 megs of ram.

Wasn't unbearable either. And if he loads it to ram, it'll just fly.

 

[Nothinman]

By ran, what do you mean? There's no way you used anything graphical.

 

[hooflung]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
By ran, what do you mean? There's no way you used anything graphical.

Flux Box will work on his PC just fine. Infact as long as he doesn't multi-task he can even run The Gimp on that box. Flash and firefox, however, might be noticably slow but my vote is for anything based around slackware if you know what your doing or debian sarge if you don't.

 

[Nothinman]

Flux Box will work on his PC just fine. Infact as long as he doesn't multi-task he can even run The Gimp on that box. Flash and firefox, however, might be noticably slow but my vote is for anything based around slackware if you know what your doing or debian sarge if you don't.

Too bad fluxbox sucks, but yea it'll run on the 128M machine alright. I was referring to the 16M machine that SleepWalkerX mentioned.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
By ran, what do you mean? There's no way you used anything graphical.

Yup, I could run firefox (1.0.7) and xmms at the same time along with other things. I just made a 700+ meg swap and everything ran fine. It wasn't unbearably sluggish, it just took 2-4 seconds to maximize/minimize firefox while loading a crapload of tabs. (The processor is like 300mhz)

 

[Nothinman]

Unbearable is subjective =)

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Too bad fluxbox sucks

You just have a bad attitude towards anything you don't use, don't you?

 

[Nothinman]

You just have a bad attitude towards anything you don't use, don't you?

I did use fluxbox for a bit and just didn't like it. I don't really care either way what other people use, but it's still entertaining to see some people's reactions =)

 

[hooflung]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

You just have a bad attitude towards anything you don't use, don't you?

I did use fluxbox for a bit and just didn't like it. I don't really care either way what other people use, but it's still entertaining to see some people's reactions =)

Well ... gui's can have all the fluff in the world or as little as possible. Usefulness is subjective. I don't specifically like fluxbox or any the blackbox spin offs but to someone with limited resources its a godsend.

 

[Nothinman]

I currently use Enlightenment DR16 and it's RSS is ~5M and AFAIK it's just as useful as *box.