Gaming I'm so lost in Linux!

[playallday]

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[Banger]

If you want something to run on a computer like that. No Ubuntu with a GUI would not run on that. You are going to have to run CLI so yea... DSL would be alright for that computer and that is about it.

 

[playallday]

If you want something to run on a computer like that. No Ubuntu with a GUI would not run on that. You are going to have to run CLI so yea... DSL would be alright for that computer and that is about it.

Well I'm running Windows 98 as it is... Doesn't that have a GUI

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[9volt Kappa]

With only 64MB of RAM,you might want to try puppy linux(can be run off disc),I don't even think xubuntu would run with that much ram.Also there is viruses just very few.

The minimum requirements are a 100MHz CPU and 64MB of RAM or better, which makes it a great way to extend the life of old PCs

 

[Banger]

They recommended at least 128 megs of ram and 3 gigs of hard drive space for ubuntu and this was the release from 2006... You tell me? You never mentioned what cpu you had.

I guess if you really want to run something with a GUI, Xubuntu is the way to go. But still I would stick to DSL or something super light weight.

 

[playallday]

With only 64MB of RAM,you might want to try puppy linux(can be run off disc),I don't even think xubuntu would run with that much ram.Also there is viruses just very few.

The minimum requirements are a 100MHz CPU and 64MB of RAM or better, which makes it a great way to extend the life of old PCs

Great, I think I'll try Puppy Linux! Can I use it without a mouse?

 

[9volt Kappa]

Great, I think I'll try Puppy Linux! Can I use it without a mouse?

Hmm... don't know

 

[Banger]

DSL (Damn Small Linux) Info:

• Boot from a business card CD as a live linux distribution (LiveCD)
• Boot from a USB pen drive
• Boot from within a host operating system (that's right, it can run *inside* Windows)
• Run very nicely from an IDE Compact Flash drive via a method we call "frugal install"
• Transform into a Debian OS with a traditional hard drive install
• Run light enough to power a 486DX with 16MB of Ram
• Run fully in RAM with as little as 128MB (you will be amazed at how fast your computer can be!)
• Modularly grow -- DSL is highly extendable without the need to customize

 

[9volt Kappa]

Oh one more thing,you can take the puppy disc out after booting up if you need to use the disc drive(might be useful if you're planning to run puppy off a CD)

 

[playallday]

Never mind, I can't even get my old computer to boot from drive E! It only wants to boot from C or A.

 

[9volt Kappa]

Never mind, I can't even get my old computer to boot from drive E! It only wants to boot from C or A.

Did you set it to in your bios?

 

[UltraMagnus]

4. Is there any virus, worms, etc on Linux? I mean ANY!

none that I know of, and even if the was the worst it could do is delete your porn collection, because it would require root access to do much else.

With only 64MB of RAM,you might want to try puppy linux(can be run off disc),I don't even think xubuntu would run with that much ram.Also there is viruses just very few.

The minimum requirements are a 100MHz CPU and 64MB of RAM or better, which makes it a great way to extend the life of old PCs

DSL (Damn Small Linux) Info:

• Boot from a business card CD as a live linux distribution (LiveCD)
• Boot from a USB pen drive
• Boot from within a host operating system (that's right, it can run *inside* Windows)
• Run very nicely from an IDE Compact Flash drive via a method we call "frugal install"
• Transform into a Debian OS with a traditional hard drive install
• Run light enough to power a 486DX with 16MB of Ram
• Run fully in RAM with as little as 128MB (you will be amazed at how fast your computer can be!)
• Modularly grow -- DSL is highly extendable without the need to customize

both of these are good, although not the most user friendly of distributions. however unless you install them to hard drive you have to keep the disk in the drive

QUOTE(playallday @ Dec 1 2008, 01:04 AM)

Never mind, I can't even get my old computer to boot from drive E! It only wants to boot from C or A.

many old computers lack the ability to boot from CD drive, you will have to download or make a boot floppy, i know for a fact that DSL has boot floppy images in the same place you download it from

 

[playallday]

Never mind, I can't even get my old computer to boot from drive E! It only wants to boot from C or A.

Did you set it to in your bios?

Yes I did. But, I found a program called "WakePuppy" that's works great for me! Yay, Puppy Linux is up and running!