Puppy will run on it. Puppy is base on Ubuntu. david
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:26:31 -0400 J <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 17:22, Ken <[email protected]> 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 -- dlp ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
