<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.3.2"> </HEAD> <BODY> I usually use Slackware and/or DSL (Damn Small Linux) for low end machines. Both can be tweaked to run on a lowly 486... Gilboa On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 15:26 -0500, John Bray wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 02:11 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: > Considering the size of memory, I'd say RH9. > FC1 was too buggy (in my eyes) > FC2 and 3 were too heavy to be used with 196MB. (I have a similar laptop > with 256MB) > However, be advised that using such an old distro is a major security > risk. > > Another interesting option is CentOS 2.1 / RHEL 2.1. > Both are still supported and should perform fairly close to RH9. > > Gilboa > > On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 13:16 -0700, <A HREF="mailto:malahal@us.ibm.com">malahal@us.ibm.com</A> wrote: > > I don't need any new features. Anything from RedHat7.3 and up should be > > fine for me. > > > you know, i have an old toshiba 300mHz p2 laptop. only 96 mb of memory, and i've been playing around with puppy linux. so far, it seems to run quite nicely. and has a remarkable number of packages available for it. you might give it a try. it has an almost live cd -- you can also have it store some of it's data on a fat32 or ext2 drive, so it start's up faster from then on. john </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>