linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Hope this isn't too Newbie for a Newbies Group

Puppy will run on it. Puppy is base on Ubuntu.

david

On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:26:31 -0400
J <dreadpiratejeff@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 17:22, Ken <kshansen@twcny.rr.com> wrote:
> > I have an older HP computer, not this one, that has a Pentium II processor and 64 MB
> > Ram.
> >
> > Would this be a good candidate for Linux and if so any particular version? Just looking
> > for something to play around with, maybe surf the web email and such.
>
> Yeah... you're going to be hard pressed to get any modern linux
> running on that... You may be able to get one of the small distros
> like Puppy or Damn Small Linux running on it. It's possible you can
> get something with no GUI running like a server oriented distro, or
> something along those lines.
>
> To be honest, it's been forever since I ran anything with 64mb of RAM.
> If you can find more RAM somewhere and get it to 256 you'll have a
> much better chance. It'll still be horribly slow, but a lot better
> than with 64MB.
>
> Cheers
>
> jeff

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