I have a Windows 95 machine from about 1995, and I'm thinking of installing Linux on it. Which distro/version would work best for an old computer?
I don't really need that much capability, just something that I can mess around with - I want to get familiar with Linux.
What kind of specs?
CPU, RAM, HD, video card?
If you're thinking about using blitzMax on it, then the biggest limiting factor is probably going to be the video adapter -- BlitzMax *really* needs a hardware accelerated 3D card, and any card over a decade old is likely going to be severely deficient... Expect excruciatingly slow screen updates from a blitzmax app on such a system.
I have a Windows 95 machine from about 1995, and I'm thinking of installing Linux on it. Which distro/version would work best for an old computer?
This article may be helpful:
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/02/13/1854251
I have no idea of the specs, it's less than a 666Mhz I think...HD has got to be only a few Gigs or less, little or no video card, and probably about 64-128MB of RAM. I could be wrong though...
And I'm not planning to use BlitzMax on it. I just want to mess around with Linux a bit.