hello everyone

I searching for a few days to find some Linux disto. with VGA compatible GUI and yet i can not find anything. all Linux Distro. use Gnome. KDE, OpenBOX, ... for GUI.
The VGA Compatible GUI is look like NC (Norton Commander) and NU (Norton Utilities) in old days. I attach NC.
did you have any suggestion?
I need this type of Linux Distro. for Learning and Education.

Thanks

[recovering disk space, attachment deleted by admin]Slackware is what I used originally with Linux and VGA 640x480 and used X Window with Gnome such as shown here:

http://hgriggs.org/xwindows.html

Did this on an old Pentium 166 with a 6.4GB HDD long long time ago. It was a very lengthy and manual process.thanks DaveLembke

Q1: do you have any photo of that old slackware?

Q2: where can i find old Slackware? main slackware website only have new version.
http://mirrors.slackware.com/


thanksWell you dont have to use slackware, but it is what i used a long time ago. There are other choices out there, however depending on system requirements you may find yourself having to run an obsolete distro.

As far as support for VGA, it is a rare occurance to have any issues with drivers for modern hardware and modern linux distro, however in the past I remember with Redhat 6.0 having to dig through a box of computer hardware I had pieces/parts and trying different video cards until i found one that was supported by the distro. Back then you would have video support through the install, and you made a selection on what video driver and resolution to use and then if it was a bad selection your display would EITHER go BLACK since it couldnt sync up or you would end up with strange display issues such as one driver that showed my screen doubled over itself with 2 mouse pointers etc.

I ended up finding a Trident VGA ISA slot type video card with 1MB Video RAM to use because there was no driver available for the integrated video card. Back then I was running an IBM 486DX4 100Mhz with 32MB RAM as my box to run Linux on and the biggest reason for this system not being used for anything else was because the bios was not Y2K compliant so I had it dated in the past during the roll over so that the system wouldnt show the year 2052 or something like that.

What is your hardware specs so I might be able to direct you to a match? CPU, RAM, Hard Drive Size, Video Card or GPU info and Video RAM amount etc.

As far as distros go, I myself found looking for older distros about a month ago that the mirrors are pretty empty of distros older than release dates within the last 6 years or so. But with ENOUGH digging you can usually find an old iso somewhere on a remote mirror if you want to run Linux on say a Pentium 200Mhz MMX and 64MB RAM etc, in which 99% of modern distros wouldnt run on that hardware and of which most of them are 1GB RAM recommended, 512MB MINIMUM, as wella s there are some made for lower end systems that required 384MB RAM that are still supported.thanks DaveLembke for great guide.

The PC specs are P3 800MHz, 64 MB RAM (may be upgraded to 128), 4 GB HDD

thanks
If you can stuff the maximum memory into that computer which is 512MB, you can run way more choices of distros.

I recently upgraded my DELL Pentium III 600Mhz laptop to 512MB of Ram ( 2 x 256MB sticks of PC133 sodimms in which PC133 RAM is backwards compatible to PC100. ) for just $15 buying memory on amazon.com, and I am running Linux MINT 14 KDE on it. This uses up about 5GB of my 12GB Hard Drive, and 512MB is bare minimum memory for this version to operate according to online data. http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=118953

4GB hard drive is really tight for a modern Linux install with a GUI .... most want 5GB or greater.

If you are stuck with the hardware being just a Pentium III 800Mhz 128MB RAM, and 4GB Hard Drive, if you want to have a GUI you will probably have to use an obsolete distro such as Linux MINT 6 which is happy but slow at 128MB RAM and can be squeezed into 2GB of the 4GB, or an older Live Distro such as Knoppix 4.

There is a modern distro called xubuntu based on ubuntu, but designed for older systems with lesser resources, and its minimum requirements are 256MB RAM. As can be found here: http://xubuntu.org/getxubuntu/

Knoppix claims to still support 128MB RAM and may be a good choice if you want to keep your 4GB hard drive free for saving personal data, and just run this operating system off of the CD or DVD Rom drive. Knoppix is one of many cool Live Linux Distros that is packed with useful software and can run by booting off the burned CD or DVD on this system. The only drawback to this LIVE Linux Distro is that it can be slow to boot to the desktop on 128MB RAM, and it runs way better on even 256MB RAM. More info here: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Knowing_Knoppix/Knoppix_for_the_first_time