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

On 6/21/25 14:55, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 16:25:13 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
 

I did get an Eee PC netbook to run Mint on 512M, but it was gruesome.
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It wasn't CPU bound it was ram bound and all swappy.

 I tried running KDE 4.x on my Eee PC 701 off an SD card, with no swap
space. It ran fine.

And I ran Mandriva 2009 with KDE 3.59 on a 700 MHz Coppermine Pentium on
640 MG with one 8 MB reseved Graphic ram on a Inspiron 4000.
It seemed a bit slow so I reduced the Virtural Desktops to only one considering
that it had been using Windows XP before I shifted it to GNU/Linux/KDE.
bliss- Dell Precision 7730- PCLOS 2025.06- Linux 6.12.33- Plasma 5.27.11