Need advice on os for a comp

[galstaph]

Hi all,
OK first off, if it could run osx, it would be running it....
I have a celeron 500
with 32mb ram
I want to put on an os that will actually run. I don't really care too much about what type it is but it should be a gui and work decent. It has win2k right now but barely runs (used to have more ram in it prior). I just want something i can throw on there so I can sell it at a garage sale next weekend.
Any ideas? I'm thinking some form of linux but which one? Or do I try to find windows 3.11 ?

 

[reh]

Damn Small Linux runs on just about anything.

 

[Killyp]

Does DSL have things like Windows compatible networking (and Mac) along with a Firewall built in?

 

[mduser63]

Why don't you add more RAM? With more RAM, Windows 2000 or even a more fully-featured Linux distro (compared to DSL) will run pretty well.

 

[Killyp]

Get 256 megs of RAM installed and run suse linux. It's very very resource efficient. It can run entirely off ram...

 

[galstaph]

I pulled the ram out because as I said, I am selling it at a garage sale, no use to me to upgrade it.

 

[jhu]

I pulled the ram out because as I said, I am selling it at a garage sale, no use to me to upgrade it.

well, then why even put an operating system on it? or put something on if the customer asks for it

 

[Skeeball236]

del

 

[reh]

I'd go with Ubuntu, it looks pretty....runs decent.

That's a hoot. Note the amount of RAM in this computer.