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

The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

I did get an Eee PC netbook to run Mint on 512M, but it was gruesome.

I got an Eee PC netbook to run Tiny Core Linux 15 on 512MB RAM and
X was is quick as anywhere. Things only got gruesome when I started
Firefox. After booting to the desktop there's 74MB RAM used (still
a lot compared to old Linux distros, eg. 24MB in use on the older
PC I'm posting from now in an X window) and lightweight programs
run lightning quick with its 900MHz Celeron M CPU.

That is running TinyX (Xvesa) instead of Xorg.

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