Best Oprating system that suite 128 RAM ?

Hello,

I have 128 mb RAM memory and Intel Celeron 1.7 MHz prossesr. What would be the best Oprating system that suite this specifications? I need something could make my PC fast.

 

I would stick 98se on it.

 

Hi, Majid!
In my opinion the best decision is Windows XP in this case. It's slightly too little amount of RAM of course, but situation with Win 2000 hardly is better... Win 98 requires less amount of RAM of course, but it has SO many bugs that I'm ashamed of advising it.

 

I run win98se on my other computer, and it has only 96mb of ram, with a slower processor than yours, and it is pretty quick. Obviously it wont do much gaming, but for email, surfing, etc... its fine.

 

I hate to say it because I'm not a big linux fan, but with your proc and only 128MB of RAM, linux would smoke.

 

I'm taking a Red Hat 9 class right now, and I think there's a lot of nice features in linux that would be helpful to me but I also think there's a lot of convolution and lack of consitency over distro's. If I learn Red Hat, only the core of linux is the same so if I go to SUSE, there will be some difference that I will have to adjust to. Couple that with the myriad of distro's and it becomes difficult to gauge which distro would suite my needs best. Then if I started to work with one distro, lets say development with mono, how can I be sure my app will work on a good portion of distro's.. Perhaps mono was a bad choice to describe the scenario as it is a framework.

I've still much to learn about Linux and my outlook may change but right now it's more negative than positive. I'd say 60/40 bad/good

 

I recently got into linux also. Though, my background was more in the lines of Solaris and HPUX.

 

Win98SE is a good choice for a system with those specs. However, if you wish to try linux, there are several good distros that will run on that system.

SimplyMEPIS
Fedora Core 4
CentOS 4

are just a few, a couple of good places to search for linux distros are:
Linux Online
LinuxISrg

Knoppix Live CD is a good distro to start with. You can use it straight form the CD without installing anything on the HDD. If you chose to it can be installed and ran from the HDD at a later date.

 

Agree with Halo. Stick with W98SE. You can use USB on W98SE but you have to download the appropriate OEM driver. No hassle, I have done it at least 3 times. W95 doesn't support USB, as far as I can ascertain. All OS'es later than W98SE recognise USB devices when plugged in and use generic driver from M$. Bazza

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