Re: old hardware

Rodney wrote:

I run Debian 4.0 (Debian/GNU Linux); the *stable* version, "Etch" on a
system just such as you describe and I am very happy with it but I use a
light window manager, IceWM. I also have it on a 380MHz K6-2 and it is
slow but something like DSL (Damn Small Linux) runs very well on that
older system.


I run Debian Etch with XFCE on most of my systems. It's noticably quicker than Gnome or KDE but still not a 'lighweight' system. Those systems have typically at least 756 MB RAM.

On the really wimpy systems I just loaded up DSL - a 486 DX4 with 24 MB ram runs. I can't really say "runs well" but it does what I want it to do - run vncviewer to access the control panel for MythMusic. Apps are slow and you have to limit yourself to lightweight apps.

Another old laptop has 96 MB ram and a PII-266; this actually runs pretty well using lightweight apps like Abiword. It is running DSL-N.

Fedora is pretty bleading edge; ?ubuntu are supposed to be really good but I would guess your system is probably at the lower end of usability for any of the Ubuntu clones. I'd get the liveCD, fire it up and see what you can do. Same with DSL.
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