OS Recommendation

[alex2avs]

Well , since my pc's power source got burned and my mothboard got a short-circuit i managed to get my hands on an old notebook

 

Pentium III 878 Mhz

128 mb ram

 

what os do you recommend ?

I'd say a Win 98 would do but does it recognise the NTFS file format ?

 

Thank you

 

Alex Valentine

[Bridgepiece]

It 'should' run on XP, esp if you tweak it out a bit.. With win98 you will be limited in what apps/games you can run, most modern software will prolly not even run :/ Try XP, if ya can grab more system memory.. Any idea what type of video card it has?

[alex2avs]

it runs XP but very very slow.

i think it havs andATI Rage 8 mb if i'm right.

Basically i want to use it for pdfs doc , messenger , and to use USB 2.0.

98 supports NTFS formated partitions >?

also , i'd like to see some linux os suggestions too ^_^.

 

Thanks

[JimboUK]

Win98 won't be able to read NTFS and XP will run very slowly. Windows 2000 is a little lighter than XP and might run better, worth looking at Ubuntu or something similar also.

[pwnedbyscope]

wow that is really old im guessing it was made in 1998???, well i would go with 2000 not ME, and xp would be to much to bear on that old thing :)

[Illiad86]

XP would smack that thing back and forth and call it names :P You need atleast 256MB for XP otherwise it's a huge drag and not worth it. Win98 would run fine on it, Ubuntu would be even better.

[JimboUK]

If you just want it for documents and messenger then you might as well put Ubuntu on there with Open Office and Pidgin, at least that is up to date. I shudder to think how many holes Windows 98 has in it now.

[alex2avs]

yes \ 's too bad that they never finished win98 :lol:

 

i tested puppy linux , very cute , but it doesn't autodetect my internet connection

i managed to run win xp sp 3 with Iexplorer 8 and windows media player 9 +Y!Mess 8 all running at an almost acceptable speed :biggrin: reminds me of my 586 computer.

 

pclinuxos runs extremely slow from cd ,worse than xp..

 

if you know a small linux os which can autodetect my internet connection would be awesome , thanks :)