Re: old hardware

PrDtR wrote:
thanks for the speedy response, recommend anything?
"Michael Black" <et472@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:f37r4l$1b9$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"PrDtR" (prdtr@xxxxxxxxx) writes:
hello, i'm new to the world of linux and was wondering what would be the
best O/S for a P3 1 ghz/256meg.

PrDtR


Just about anything. The curve isn't linear. 486s with 4megs of memory
are very distant, 200MHz Pentiums with 36megs of RAM are reasonably close,
and 1GHz computers with 256megs of RAM are basically next to current. Pretty
much the only way the 1GHz machine differs from current computers is a
relatively minor increase in clock speed, but since 1GHz is fine for
most people's useage, the increase in clock speed isn't going to be
noticed much (especially not when memory bus and I/O bus will be what
sets the limit for most useage).

Michael





Just my 2 cents: I run Slackware 11 on two P3 laptops (850MHz and 900MHz) with 256MB ram and ATI Rage Mobility. KDE and XFCE both run fine.

I think some of the newer, graphics hungry distros would be too piggish. Stick with any of the "smaller" distros with a leaner desktop/window manager - not that KDE is lean =:-)
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