Old PC. Which OS to choose?

Question

linux

Good afternoon.
There is such a situation: an old PC of about 9-11 years of service with 256 MB of RAM, and a 48 GB hard drive.
On it at one time it was launched and worked (!) Corel X3. Now the hand does not rise to throw away, since it works quite quickly, which version of Linux is suitable for such a dinosaur?

Answer 1

I'd install Gentoo out of curiosity . If you choose a less hardcore option - Puppy .

Answer 2

does freedos count as a correct answer? ;-)
*ubuntu is now fat. and if you manage to deliver something, then apparently the assembly is 10-14 years old

Answer 3

Lubuntu or Xubuntu

Answer 4

Elementary os should work well.

Answer 5

Put this dinosaur on the shelf, you won’t even sit on it normally on the Internet, most sites with JS, at most a typewriter, because even YouTube videos won’t work. I myself have an ibm a20e laptop, Pentium 733MHz / 256 MB RAM, except for WinXP with FF 3.6, nothing works, well, the notepad still plays mp3, there is no video. I've tried all the lightweight versions of Linux, everything is slow, very slow, and it's not good for anything other than typing in notepad.

Answer 6

I installed Arch with i3wm on my rare roverbook (700 MHz, 384 Mb RAM, 8 Gb CF with CF-IDE). Runs quite well.

Answer 7

> with 256 MB RAM and 48 GB hard drive.
This is not 9-11 years old, it's all 15-17 years old. Take the old man to the museum.
On a typewriter that is 9 years old, I have modern games running normally, because the memory is 12 gig and the Xeon E5420, and your dinosaur can hammer nails

Answer 8

Oh, e-my ... Typewriter, then go 2000? Well, 2002... One of the distributions of those times may work, but it will be a specific hardcore install :) For full hardcore, you can try source-based distributions - maybe you can win back a little. But this is only as an entertainment, nothing at least somewhat useful can be done on it.