Linux on old systems?

quackers · 23 Mar 2007 at 09:41

Hi all,

I've decided that over the weekend, i'm going to take the plunge and have a look at linux.

Now my test system is an old p2-266 i think, with only 64mb ram at the moment. What's the best distro to run on that piece of junk?

Is there anything that will run on that?

Thanks all

quackers · 23 Mar 2007 at 10:14

The live cd sounds interesting, so it runs in a virtual environment in windows?

quackers · 23 Mar 2007 at 10:34

That does sound really good, so you can test all the different distros without actually installing anything. I like the sound of Ubuntu Live.

quackers · 23 Mar 2007 at 11:02

I'll have a go of that tonight, so it doesnt installed on the hard drive at all?

quackers · 23 Mar 2007 at 11:08

Sounds like a dream, i'll have a go of that tonight. Cheers for the help fella

quackers · 23 Mar 2007 at 17:43

That old system was going to be used to basically mess around with linux, i'll use my main machine to run the live cd. Even that is quite old now, xp2500@2ghz, 512ram etc etc. I think i need to upgrade

quackers · 23 Mar 2007 at 20:50

Well i'm more than impressed, ubunto is very nice indeed. I'm going to download another couple and see what they are like as well, i'm sure i'll be around these parts a lot more now