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From: "Matthew Camilleri" <bunkertoshimatty@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: What old Linux distro to run on a old Pentium III PC?
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2025 16:31:49 +0200
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Heyy, another old OS user! Im currently posting from Windows 98 SE.
"Computer Nerd Kev" <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote in message
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> Matthew Camilleri <bunkertoshimatty@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I posted a simmilar question on comp.os.misc, but that was generally for
> > what operating systems to install on this old thing (a Pentium III, 385
or
> > so megabytes of ram, 80 gb harddrive).
> >
> > What old Linux distro would be cool to run on this thing?
>
> Current Damn Small Linux or Tiny Core Linux should run fine. The older v4
> releases of Damn Small Linux might run faster than the rebooted DSL2024.
>
> http://www.damnsmalllinux.org
> http://www.tinycorelinux.net
>
> That hardware's not really slow enough that you _need_ to run an old
> (ie. based on an out-of-date Linux kernel version) distro, but if
> you want to try an old one that could run on a far slower PC with
> much less RAM, BasicLinux does that well:
>
> https://distro.ibiblio.org/baslinux/
>
> Old software does generally-speaking run better on old hardware,
> hence Linux kernel v2.4 on the Pentium 1 PC I'm posting from now.
> It can still boot modern Tiny Core Linux though, but feels slower.
> Not DSL2024, I think that needs at least i686 since it's based on
> current AntiX/Debian.
>
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