Re: What old Linux distro to run on a old Pentium III PC?

Matthew Camilleri <bunkertoshimatty@gmail.com> wrote:

I posted a simmilar question on comp.os.misc, but that was generally for
what operating systems to install on this old thing (a Pentium III, 385 or
so megabytes of ram, 80 gb harddrive).
 
What old Linux distro would be cool to run on this thing?

Current Damn Small Linux or Tiny Core Linux should run fine. The older v4
releases of Damn Small Linux might run faster than the rebooted DSL2024.

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org
http://www.tinycorelinux.net

That hardware's not really slow enough that you _need_ to run an old
(ie. based on an out-of-date Linux kernel version) distro, but if
you want to try an old one that could run on a far slower PC with
much less RAM, BasicLinux does that well:

https://distro.ibiblio.org/baslinux/

Old software does generally-speaking run better on old hardware,
hence Linux kernel v2.4 on the Pentium 1 PC I'm posting from now.
It can still boot modern Tiny Core Linux though, but feels slower.
Not DSL2024, I think that needs at least i686 since it's based on
current AntiX/Debian.

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