Whats the best OS for my old computer (1999)

[tahdas]

I have an old dell and i want to find an os that will run on it and that ill like. I have tried all the puppys, all the ubuntus (Wouldnt run), and a whole lot of others. The CPU has around 1 Gb ram. Im looking for something that looks mac-e.

Thanks,
tahdas

 

[stillblue]

Im looking for something that looks mac-e.

Thanks,
tahdas

DRDOS is pretty good. I kid.

Are you sure your mother board can support a GB of ram? I'd check that before I went any farther if I were you. I've run ubuntu LXDE on several old machines with 256MB ram no problems as long as I stay away from video rendering. The only computer I've failed to install on, well I admit I didn't try because it only had a 2 GB hard drive, I was still able to use as a thin client on a network boot.

 

[tahdas]

That Lubuntu right? That wouldnt run.Im currently running peppermint which is ok.

tahdas@PepperMintIcecream ~ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 2
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
stepping : 9
microcode : 0x21
cpu MHz : 2793.359
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe up pebs bts cid xtpr
bogomips : 5586.71
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 128
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
power management:


and


tahdas@PepperMintIcecream ~ $ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1534944 686736 848208 0 35464 373420
-/+ buffers/cache: 277852 1257092
Swap: 1562620 0 1562620

 

[dbhosttexas]

Looking at that output, I don't see why you wouldn't be able to run CentOS 32 bit on it... Anything with the current KDE / GNOME desktops is going to be a serious resource hog though...

 

[tahdas]

Wait the computer is actuly 2004 and it has 1.5 ram

 

[tahdas]

i looked upcantos and i didnt like the way it looked.