linux on a P3

[marsbars162]

which version of linux do you recommend for a pentium 3

 

[Shane]

I think
Puppy Linux

http://www.puppylinux.org/

Or Ubuntu if if that system has more than 256mb of ram.

 

[Irishwhistle]

Either Ubuntu or Xubuntu... Xubuntu will be faster. Then there's OpenGEU, I've never used it, but it looks awesome. The e17 environment is pretty lightwieght so it should run great on a P3. Puppy Linux would be great if it ran any software... I kept running into issues with it.

gOS used to be very lightwieght, but it may be a bit heavier now than it used to be.

 

[bengal85]

Ubuntu Xubuntu or Kubuntu

they are all pretty good

 

[Sommer]

Ubuntu is very light weight, especially considering that it's LiveCD is 700mb, yet other distros can be upwards of a full single-layer DVD.

 

[marsbars162]

how lightweight is xubuntu? and how do ubuntu and xubuntu run?

 

[Sommer]

how lightweight is xubuntu? and how do ubuntu and xubuntu run?

What do you mean by this?

The shell is bash (Bourne-Again). In terms of quality of running... it's Linux - pretty much sums that up. Xubuntu will be a lighter system because of the interface. It uses XFCE instead of GNOME. However, if you can get away with using Ubuntu, I'd suggest it. Gnome has a bit more support since it's used more often. But saying XFCE is lightweight is an understatement. People run it off 192mb of RAM.

As for Ubuntu;

streetvalue@ubuntu:~$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2063108 1741544 321564 0 518476 925936
-/+ buffers/cache: 297132 1765976
Swap: 976552 1748 974804

Thats without any applications open - my integrated gfx card takes a chunk off my memory as well.

 

[Irishwhistle]

What do you mean by this?

The shell is bash (Bourne-Again). In terms of quality of running... it's Linux - pretty much sums that up. Xubuntu will be a lighter system because of the interface. It uses XFCE instead of GNOME. However, if you can get away with using Ubuntu, I'd suggest it. Gnome has a bit more support since it's used more often. But saying XFCE is lightweight is an understatement. People run it off 192mb of RAM.

As for Ubuntu;



Thats without any applications open - my integrated gfx card takes a chunk off my memory as well.

Don't forget about enlightenment... not everybody likes the interface, but man is it fast.

 

[marsbars162]

how would i run xubuntu from a disc, or even get it on a disc. i downloaded it and its an iso file

 

[/\E]

how would i run xubuntu from a disc, or even get it on a disc. i downloaded it and its an iso file

That's an image of the disc(a copy), you need to burn that to a disc.

Download this to burn the image:
http://infrarecorder.org/

 

[marsbars162]

couldnt i just burn it using any program?

 

[marsbars162]

i'm running xubuntu now from the disk and liking it. thanks everyone. i may create a xubuntu partition on my hard drive.

 

[marsbars162]

how do i install it, i run the installer but at the partition part, it says i have no root file system

 

[Sommer]

how do i install it, i run the installer but at the partition part, it says i have no root file system

There should be a field called 'mount point' (with manual install) just add a "/" (without the quotations) in that field on your ext3 partition.

 

[marsbars162]

thanks it is installing now

 

[Sommer]

thanks it is installing now

Awesome, I also suggest making like a 1GB 'swap' partition to store your personal documents. This is just incase you make something go wrong on Xubuntu, so you'll have important files if you reformat the root partition.