amc11890 Posted June 12, 2006 CID Share Posted June 12, 2006 I just hooked up one of my old hp computers and I am wondering which linux os would be best for the computer the specs are: 600mhz celeron 64 mb of ram 16mb video card Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted June 12, 2006 CID Share Posted June 12, 2006 suse is the best for that. and its very easy to learn if you have never used linux before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
php Posted June 13, 2006 CID Share Posted June 13, 2006 Majorly a personal preference. For older computers I like Debian or Bonzai, for newer I like SuSE or Ubuntu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark06 Posted June 14, 2006 CID Share Posted June 14, 2006 i will go more for puppy or beatrix because f the ram issue theres very lil of it There live cds so u will always need 2 have that in the cd drive u could also try slax popcn edition worked better 4 meon a 500 mhz k6 http://www.watsky.net/ Beatrix very basic http://www.puppylinux.org/user/viewpage.php?page_id=1 almost the same as beatrix http://www.slax.org/ Slax i would recomend popcorn edition Pclinux Os would b a good choice if u had 256 mb of ram u def need more ram in that What kind is it? Probably pc 100/133 bu the speed of the processor Try to go out to a local computer shop and buy more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amc11890 Posted June 14, 2006 Author CID Share Posted June 14, 2006 i will go more for puppy or beatrix because f the ram issue theres very lil of it There live cds so u will always need 2 have that in the cd drive u could also try slax popcn edition worked better 4 meon a 500 MHz k6 http://www.watsky.net/ Beatrix very basic http://www.puppylinux.org/user/viewpage.php?page_id=1 almost the same as beatrix http://www.slax.org/ Slax i would recomend popcorn edition Pclinux Os would b a good choice if u had 256 mb of ram u def need more ram in that What kind is it? Probably pc 100/133 bu the speed of the processor Try to go out to a local computer shop and buy more pc 100 and at one point i was running xp pro on it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted June 14, 2006 CID Share Posted June 14, 2006 amc11890 have you ever used any version of linux before? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amc11890 Posted June 14, 2006 Author CID Share Posted June 14, 2006 amc11890 have you ever used any version of linux before? I've used Red hat, linspire, ubuntu, fedora core. But its been awhile since i have used these Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted June 14, 2006 CID Share Posted June 14, 2006 i would put Suse or Debian on that computer suse is a little easier to configure though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just- Posted June 14, 2006 CID Share Posted June 14, 2006 i think the easiest one to learn will be UNBUNTUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted June 14, 2006 CID Share Posted June 14, 2006 i think the easiest one to learn will be UNBUNTUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU unbuntu is easy but suse is even easier becuase its almost just like windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amc11890 Posted June 14, 2006 Author CID Share Posted June 14, 2006 Right know i have 2000 pro on it. Do you guys think i should keep that on it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted June 14, 2006 CID Share Posted June 14, 2006 Right know i have 2000 pro on it. Do you guys think i should keep that on it? if your just going to use it for backup and you don't want to learn anything new then i would keep win 2000 on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amc11890 Posted June 14, 2006 Author CID Share Posted June 14, 2006 if your just going to use it for backup and you don't want to learn anything new then i would keep win 2000 on it. Im not really sure, It was brothers old computer and he doesnt remember the password to login on to the computer, is there any way to reset the password w/o formatting because i lost the cd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted June 14, 2006 CID Share Posted June 14, 2006 Im not really sure, It was brothers old computer and he doesnt remember the password to login on to the computer, is there any way to reset the password w/o formatting because i lost the cd ya you can reset it with a linux boot disk. this one will do it. http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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