[wellylug] What is the best linux distribution for old hardware ?

[Ilia Pavlenko]

Slackware ! It comes with least amount of "bloat" :)))

The question is - what are you going to do with these ???

if you want to use these boxes as router/firewall  - you better off
building OS yourself (LFS) with the latest (and supposedly most patched
and secure) versions of software.

if you just want a "email/typewriter" terminal - use old Slackware
(3.5,...,4.0/7.0)...

I am quite happily using Slack 3.5 on COMPAQ Contura laptop
(i486/25Mhz....) for "electronic-book/X-terminal", yet my home server is
LFS system on Pentium75.

Ilia


On 23 May 2003, Nigel Walters wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a couple of old pentium 120's with 32mb RAM and 1G disks.
>
> What is the best distribution for old hardware ?
>
> I am currently using debian sid for all my computers but I am really
> noticing the old computers are slowing down even running blackbox !!
>
>
> I notice "Vector Linux" is aimed at old hardware. Any opinions welcome.
>
> Thanks
>
> regards
> Nigel
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