Got 96mb ram, which current version of Linux will happily work within this limit?
Linux is renowned for having a light footprint, like that of Windows 98, but nearly all current versions have broken this feature and will therefore page for eternity once fired up, assuming the GUI even did!
This is my x-th attempt of getting Linux up and running smoothly. Hardware resource is Intel P2 300Mhz 98mb ram & 4gb hdd.
Think it's currently got Vector Linux installed but failed to get sound working - have had it working under Red Hat 5 so that surprised me since they're both Linux. Recently have also tried Gentoo but it paged to swap after the GUI started up.
A dude at Uni said try Puppy Linux. Had a quick peak and it's a 60mb ISO download and needs 64mb ram to run, so this looks finally to be the ticket I'm looking for.
But ... I really need to have sound & full 600x800 resolution as to play 2D games which are available on Linux. Since it doesn't have a modem, it'll have to support 10/100 Ethernet connection to a Fat32 shared folder on my Windows 2000 box. It'll probably also need a dos emulator for the games. Don't mind downloading programs to meet this need, but will have to figure out how to install them since I’ve never done that before on Linux.
Even though I've been playing with this dream of having Linux running on that computer for 5 years, I've never got past the install or configuration stage because of problems that couldn't be readily resolved, got too frustrated or simply Linux needed more resources than the computer had to offer.
Games will be either native Linux or native DOS. Would Wine work on this computer?
Please help, which current version will work and allow me to make this old computer into a lean mean 2D (lightweight 3D) gaming machine!
Thanks!
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