Best linux distro for a pentium 100mhz with 64MB RAM?

[Night201]

I have just received a pentium 100mhz with 64MB RAM (I think). The graphics card is only 2mb probably. It's an old Gateway 2000 machine.

I want to get my feet wet with Linux and thought I would use this computer if possible. Is there any distro of linux that would run on a machine like this?

 

[NuclearFusi0n]

Anything but Gentoo.



For the love of god, don't install Gentoo Linux.

 

[Need4Speed]

any of them are fine ... X might run slow though. I'd recommend debian.

 

[GhettoFob]

Originally posted by: NuclearFusi0n
Anything but Gentoo.



For the love of god, don't install Gentoo Linux.

I wonder if it could finish emerging KDE in under a week. :Q

 

[Nothinman]

Debian.

 

[JackOfHearts]

Slack🙂

 

[Vadatajs]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Debian.

 

[PrincessGuard]

X will run slow.

You might want to play around with OpenBSD or NetBSD.

 

[Linulux]

Good luck running X man.. I personally would run text mode of slackware.. You wont be running any modern distros unless its in text. You can still get almost any version of Linux off of FTP's.. Try redhat 6.2 or so if you want graphical..

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

A gui will run just fine, but you'll have to stick to lightweight apps.

 

[Haden]

Debian,
BlackBox (or lightweight clone) for WM, Opera for browser (I don't think mozilla will do, it's starting at least 100 times 🙂 longer that Opera 7.11 on my powerbook), other light apps (I suggest you forget anything that depends on KDE, like konqueror).
When you are ready, turn off most daemons you feel you don't need (like xprint, cron, loggers etc.).
64MB will help much it should not be very slow.