Good OS for these specs..

[MikeReiner]

2000 would run perfectly fine on that system... 256mb is more than enough to get it running smoothe. (I run a 300mhz with 384mb of ram, so trust me i know!)

 

[Matt08642]

ya, the RAM is fine. XP Pro ran fine on my 64MB RAM computer.

 

[Jesusfrk611]

I have Windows XP installed on my PII PC w/ 384MB RAM, it runs a little slow, it's faster than I though it would be.
Linux is only free if you download it, obviously he can't download it off the internet w/o a working PC. I checked to see the prices on some of the CDs they ship to you and it's like $30 or more for selected Linux OSes. I'm not sure about all of them though.

EDIT: my PII is 450MHz

 

[MooseMan1]

yea some of our school micron peice of shits are 700 MHz and probably 256MB running 2000 pro so i'm sure that it'll do just fine, but if u do alot of multi-taskin like photoshop, dreamweaver, fireworks, and a few IE windows expect 2 wait a little lol, i do it alot of the school computers and the slow down a bit

 

[joe pic]

windows xp lite! yeah! ... i would say windows 2000 also... but if not, windows xp wouln't be bad. i've seen xp on 300mhz with 192 mbs of ram..

 

[burton_o61]

Me is the worst os microsoft had ever put out. Even my A+ text book agrees.

 

[MooseMan1]

rofl yea microsoft they even posted on their website not 2 get Me, well it was worded differently but similar enough

 

[Will1]

i would go with ubuntu, thats what i have running on a very similar computer and it runs well... and ubuntu pwns to start with so....

 

[borat_sagdiyev]

well my mom had xp running on a 333mhz with 96mb ram. ROFL

 

[MooseMan1]

lol, well ubuntu is great and all but he did say he wanted windows if possible, but i guess it's still good 2 mention thats a good os 2 i guess