Yes increasing would be helpful the pc has a 384mb limit I belive 128mb x 3 slots. It has 2 43mb sticks currently. I was thinking buying at least one 128 stick to have 224mb.(if it lets me use diffrence sizes) or 2 128mb and one of the 43 for 299mb. 3 128mb aticks is way to expensive. Each being about $24 from what I see.Even one is too much money for this pc.With only 96Mb of RAM you won't be able to do much. Increase the amount of RAM if you can, if it is economically sensible.
As a followup to this, I did download both TinyCore and CorePlus and try them out. They may run on your computer, but they are probably not going to be acceptable. They are extremely barebones, and you would probably have too much trouble getting them to do what you want.I think I would try Tiny Core Linux to see if it will run. I've never used it before, but it looks like it might have a chance in your case.
I should have mentioned that I didn't want to spend money on it. I feel the same way about why spend money when you can get a new system. I though maybe I could put life back into this pc because I have it and why not. I see it as a sin to throw out a pc even this old and non powerful. But thanks though!When you talk of spending money, you change the whole scope of your orignal post. I would not spend $50 to upgrade your old system to only 256 MB. You'd be better off to shop around for a used or refurbished system,
But I really would not spend money on the system that you have.
Good luck!
Puppy Linux 3.01 may run on this
One of the better versions of Puppy.
