[DC LoCo] installing linux on a pentium 1 toshiba laptop

Daniel Chen seven.steps at gmail.com
Wed Mar 9 03:57:14 UTC 2011


On 3/8/11, Phil Shapiro <pshapiro at his.com> wrote:
>    Just curious, has anyone had success installing Lubuntu on a
> Pentium 1 computer? Do you think I'd be better off installing Puppy
> Linux or Damn Small Linux instead?

The standard install of all supported Ubuntu derivatives is going to
crawl on a Pentium with fewer than 128 MB RAM. You'll almost certainly
want to use a much lighter distro.

-Dan



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