Wich OS on a old pc?
 

Hello, I have an old pc for my brother, it's a pantium 2 200mhz with 64mb ram, wich os shall I install, windows 98,me or nt or 2k (it must be windows because he don't know anything else) what do you think is the best os for such old pc

Linux

98

gentoo or lfs linux :)

I apreciate your posts, but he only wants to have a windows version

Get a good stable version of 98.. OR go out and pick up some more memory, in which case I'd suggest running Win2000 or 2002. Memory for that computer should be dirt cheap.

do the guy a favor and buy him some RAM for fucks sakes!
it's cheap.

I got it for free on my work you know, my brother is a captain on a ship (well not really a captain he's my 20 year old twinbrother) I've bought him a good pc at home a while ago (amd xp 2000+ 512mb ram etc) But now I wanna give him one for on his ship, just for some music, word documents and maybe some little games.

go with win98 or me both will run great on that system

98 SE

ok, if I buy more memory should it be able to run w2k, that should be great

98SE is the best choice. Even with more memory ih has too weak CPU for w2k IMHO

I agree, 98 is fine.

FreeBSD w/ KDE

windows 2003 or windows 2000, 2003 uses the least amount of memory i think, and if he doesn't want all that shit pre installed like "aol compuserve juno " all that unnescessory shit that will prolly lag that computer bad i would get windows 2003 server

linux redhat with gnome of kde
if windows then 98se

is windows 2003 server taking less memory then win 98?

im pretty sure.. windows 2003 server is plain and simple, no bs you don't need, install the win2003 server with none of the box's checked for iis and terminal services and it should run better then 98, can get windows 2003 for free at microsoft.com some where.. duno the link tho

Free? Did I heard the word free:Graucho thx m8

dos would be good

Install windows 95. 98 was nothing but a big peice of shit.

95 = decent
98 = shit
2k = best
xp = shit

Are you reading what you type? its a p2 200mhz! Just the bootup would used all the memory then you would be hitting the swap drive which causes further lag

make us proud again,doesn't matter what runs best FREE is the magic word:Graucho

Win98 with all the service packs... 95 had screwups that 98 fixed (as well as Gates fixes things)... 95 had some techno glitches that would swallow ram whole and 98 used the swap file a little better.

128 megs of RAM is about all a 200 would use before it'd be a waste.

95/98 are total shit OS's .. go with 2k it is the best all around

i still have an old Pentium MMX 200Mhz installed with Windows ME. working just fine and it was previously installed with
Windows 95/98/98 SE.

Install Win98(SE), hell I ran it just fine on my old 486 dx 100 with 32mb, slower than a Pentium 75mhz. I wouldn't even consider Win2000, why wait twice as long for it to boot when you can do almost everything with 98. Plus 2k won't play games very well.

Here's the link to the Windows 2003 Server eval kit. It's good for 180 days and then you've got to pay to upgrade. Not bad.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserv...l/evalkit.mspx