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can anybody recommend a lightweight Linux distro that will run on old hardware?

i’m looking a a Pentium III 566 MHz, 256MB of RAM, on board video 2MB shared RAM
thanks,

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calemus offline Verified User (1 year) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
An Unknown Location | 3 weeks, 5 days ago (1 hour, 44 minutes after post)

xbuntu
absolutly magnifisent

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An Unknown Location | 3 weeks, 5 days ago (2 hours, 19 minutes after post)

puppy linux, but I didn’t like it in the end…

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3 weeks, 5 days ago (2 hours, 26 minutes after post)

great, thanks
hey how educated are you on Linux?

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An Unknown Location | 3 weeks, 5 days ago (2 hours, 30 minutes after post)

the reason i ask is because i had sort of a complex question, tried to post it but the ******* server just deleted my post for some reason and i can’t repost it? wtf

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Michael Leibman offline Verified User (1 year, 10 months) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
Littleton, CO, US | 3 weeks, 5 days ago (4 hours, 19 minutes after post)

arch. It’d take longer to setup than xubuntu, but then much faster and more versatile. (I haven’t tried ‘puppy’, but along those lines, I think maybe Slax, a minimal user-friendly live-slackware compilation, might be be able to be installed to a hard drive.)

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