I had a old pentium3 64mb ram 16mb graphic card 20 gig hardrive..and it runs windows 98 and is full of virus..so i wiped it out and installed a light distro..erm..here are some that i like
Damn Small Linux (50mb)
Slitaz ( average 25mb)
Puppy linux ( 80mb)
Kwort (400mb)
Working center linux project (670mb)
deli linux (250 mb)
luit linux (50mb)
Jinx (50mb)
Fluxubuntu (300mb)
TinyFlux (240mb)
All this linux OS work great , no fatal errors and irritating bugs..
Jinx has some problem adjusting to bigger screen resolution..and WCLP takes a long time to instal on my old box...A good 50 minutes at the partitoning part...
WCLP is debian based and to install it , try to partition your harddrive beforehand....One swap partiton one ext2 or ext3 partiton..if you are not planning to dual boot,
Luit linux and Deli linux needs some configuration for my old box before it could start the GUI and internet connection...so it might not be convinient for ppl who dislike command lines....
All the other distros that claim to be light and fast with KDE are talking crap...KDE is as buffed up as ur average windows....a recomanded of 256 mb is needed to run KDE...
Fluxubuntu and some other dervratives like iceubuntu are , er...no offense , but not as light as they claim to be..
Fluxubuntu , a remaster of ubuntu , using FLuxbox needs about 128 mb to even start properly....so swapping is recomanded.....Why 128 mb when they use Fluxbox?...Ubuntu isnt really a light system after all ...But its a great OS indeed..with all the apps and well polished desktop
TinyFlux is based on PClinuxOS but uses fluxbox ...and needs a 128 mb ram to start the live cd..
Sunday, August 31, 2008
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A little trick I use sometimes is to add extra ram just for the install. And then remove it afterwards. I have used this for Puppy linux bumping ram to 128 then 64 after a full install.
You missed GoblinX Micro. A 100MB with Fluxbox as windows manager.
oops ..sorry about GoblinMIcro...>.<
Hate to defend my (slightly my, that is. I've been handed control, but the current version I didn't make.) distro, but Icebuntu only uses about 45MB of RAM at idle. This is on my eMachine eTower 400i with 160MB RAM and a 400MHz Celeron.
It still needs 128MB RAM to install, but that's entirely due to Ubiquity (maybe I could replace it with inxtaller?).
O.O...Wow...you are the maker of iceubuntu...!! wow..
Sob.So cool...having your own distro..
Sigh.. i have no time to make one..
and it would take forever the compile things on my com...It is very slow..
So cooool
Erm... from what i heard..ubiquity is intergrated with ubuntu install ?? correct me if i am wrong...Er..so replacing installer means building from scratch
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