Re: Recommendations for Low Memory Systems?

From: Abdullah Ramazanoglu (abdullah_at_ramazanoglu.tr)
Date: 08/15/04 

Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 07:30:20 +0300

samsonsf@pacbell.net (Samuel) dedi ki:

> I have some older systems that I'd like to install Linux to. I'd also
> like to have a GUI and Open Office.
>
> Some of the systems are 433 Celerons with 64 MB of RAM and some of the
> others are P100 Laptops with 32 MB of RAM.
>
> Can anyone make any recommendations?

For the sake of consistency, it is not advisable to run e.g. Mandrake +
KDE on some systems and FeatherLinux + IceWm on others. Also there is no
way you can run OOo on a 32M system no matter what distro/wm you use. So,
for the P100/32M systems I second John's LTSP suggestion.

For Celeron433/64M systems I would suggest that you upgrade them to at
least 128M (preferably 192M), try to overclock them by 10% or more
(increase bus speed from 66 to 75MHz or higher, search "overclocking" for
details) and see my other posts on the subject, with following message ids:

<40f7a2c1$0$23874$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>
<40fed5a3$0$66470$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>
<411dace1$0$73938$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>

A quote from the last one:
"My home machine is a Celeron 333 (overclocked to 375) with 128M RAM, and
it does fairly well with Mandrake 10.0. The bonus I have (so to speak) is
that my VGA card is a S3-Virge (8M) which has a fully accelerated driver."

HTH 

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