[LinuxUsers] Old Hardware ~ dell 8100 - Re: open source South America

[Randall Whitman]

> I can't get much of anything to run on my old dell 8100. Yeah, I know
> it's a p3, but the only thing I can get to run on it anymore is
> crunchbang. Nothing else will install, and crunchbang barely works. It
> depends on how it installs. sometimes it works, and sometimes it
> doesn't.  I could run older versions on it, but then there's not
> support, and there's not security updates.

I could look up the specs thru search engine, but rather than dozens of us
looking up the same thing, would you like to post the CPU speed and RAM size?
We have installed Ubuntu-8.04-LTS on P3-600Mhz with 512M RAM and it runs well.
Ubuntu functions in 256M but much more pleasant in 512M.  But for video, or
top performance with *anything*, beefier hardware needed.
If 128M, Xubuntu; if less, Puppy or DSL.

/Randall