oldie...

[vandit]

i hav a p3 550 mhz, 192 mb sdram and 40 gb harddisk....which i want to put into good use,,,,,suggest me a good opensource OS( FREE) which is lightweight.... and other lightwieght goddies which go along.... I tried to search...but didnt find appropriate one...( i m pretty bad at searchin...):o

[gary4gar]

i think u should go for a command line interface which will be faster.alternativly u can switch to KDE/GOme based desktop.i remommond ubuntu 6. without the graphical user interface.

[vandit]

are u sure ubuntu 6 will run farely fast on this config...
also... i m not apt at usin command line...:D

[mehulved]

Go for Vector Linux.
It is based on slackware.
It comes with IceWM, FluxBox and XFCE4.
Minimum config suggested for it is pentium 32 mb RAM and 950mb of disk space.
It has 3 editions. It is well optimised for old hardware.
It has some good system management tools like VASM, Gslapt.
But, you cannot run GSlapt without root permission and there's no indication of that. Same applies to USB drives.
You can get more from www.vectorlinux.com

Here are the system requirements for it http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/vectorlinux/docs/miscellaneous/version_table_2.html
Vector Linux 5.1 standard will do pretty good for your configuration.

[vandit]

these distros are out of my reach as i dont wish to spend and dont have a fast net connection either......the only ones i have are....
1.)suse
2.)DSL
3.)knoppix(live!)
4.)freeBSD
5.)ubuntu.

all of them came with digit mag.... plz suggest the most preferable .....amongst these...:p

[dIgItaL_BrAt]

DSL would run happily on that confguration.