In PC industry, hardware outdated too frequent. Your hardware often too old and too slow for the latest applications or Operating System. But you can give life to your old desktop by installing some lightweigth Linux distro.

Here are 6 linux distros that are less that 350MB. The first four are less than 256MB, suitable for less RAM computer.

Slitaz – 30MB. All the graphical desktop requirement you need to have are all inside the 30MB ISO file. The core LiveCD includes Firefox 3.0.8, gFTP, LostIRC, ePDFView, mtPaint, Transmission, Osmo and Alsaplayer. The software you need for entertainment can be found inside.

Damn Small Linux – 50MB filesize, able to boot from USB pen drive and business CD. The minimum requirement for the OS is an Intel 486 processor and 16MB! Very suitable for very very old desktop.

PuppyLinux – 85MB filesize. Preinstalled with almost all the applications you needed for leisure. It has good graphic interface, suitable for linux beginners.

Slax – 190MB filesize. is a Slackware-based bootable CD containing a Linux operating system, designed with a modular approach. Despite its small size, Slax provides a wide collection of pre-installed software for daily use, including a well-organised graphical user interface and useful recovery tools for system administrators.

Finnix – 300MB Filesize. A small system administration Live CD that is available for multiple architectures, from x86/AMD64, PowerPC to UML/Xen platforms.

PureOSlight – PureOS is a relatively new distro based in France. The Live CD is 700MB with KDE where the PureOSlight version is 300MB with Xfce, Iceweasel, Icedove, AbiWord, Gnumeric and Exaile.