Linux for a P166 ?

[Great_Melinko]

Im fairly familiar with linux but not sure what would run the best. i dont have alot of time for stup either.
what do you all reccomend?

 

[Flak Pyro]

Damn small linux is ok, i would also like to know what other people recomend.

 

[ameoba]

At that point, memory is a far more important consideration than clockspeed...

How much?

 

[Great_Melinko]

At that point, memory is a far more important consideration than clockspeed...

How much?

32mb, if i find another job im gonna get a 64mb sodimm for it

 

[Wrench00]

Try BeOS. I used it on p100 runs great.

 

[Snugglebear]

The BSDs will happily run in there.

 

[Great_Melinko]

The BSDs will happily run in there.

i had bsd on my secondary machine, i had a hell of a time compiling it, is htere an install and run type thing? i use my laptop about 20 out of the 24 hours in a day so i dont have alot of time

 

[devourment77]

slackware would run fine on it.. i would add some extra swap if you are going to use gui stuff though

 

[Snugglebear]

i had bsd on my secondary machine, i had a hell of a time compiling it, is htere an install and run type thing? i use my laptop about 20 out of the 24 hours in a day so i dont have alot of time

They all have a floppy/network (ftp/nfs/etc) install, most have freely downloadable ISOs. Just find the right version and go. I wouldn't recommend doing a cvs sync and rebuild unless you understand what's involved - for about 18 months I've used a P200 as a server for my parents' house and it's scripted to do weekly cvsups and rebuilds. It's scripted because those rebuilds take about 8 hours, portsdb -Uu adds another 4-5. I prefer interactive installations of those compiled binaries, so out of all those hours I'm only on SSH maybe 20 minutes.

 

[alexyang]

You're looking for a very light distribution.

I'd say Vector or Debian.

 

[starbuck8968]

another vote for slackware

vector is slackware