Re: Best distro of Linux for lame hardware?
From: Charlie Gibbs (cgibbs_at_kltpzyxm.invalid)
Date: 11/26/04
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Date: 26 Nov 04 09:19:38 -0800
In article <db93287f.0411251554.640c93d5@posting.google.com>,
thundercleets@yahoo.com (thundercleets@ no_spam_here yahoo.com) writes:
>Is there a distro out there that will work at an acceptable speed in
>Xwindows on this kind of hardware?
>
>Pentium 166 mmx
>96 MB RAM
>6 GB drive
>
>Thanks in advance for your advice.
I was recently given a cast-off box, supposedly for parts - but
I discovered that it had a 200-MHz Pentium, 224MB RAM, CD burner,
Sound Blaster, ATI Rage 128... Basically, all it needed was a
replacement for its hard drive, which had died - but its owner
was more concerned with following fashion and had bought the
latest and greatest as a replacement. So I went to my local
surplus shop, found a couple of 1.2-gig drives for $15 each,
and loaded Slackware 9.1 (kernel 2.4.22) onto it. By dropping
the development tools I was able to fit everything in quite
comfortably. It runs KDE without a hitch. I've given the box
to a niece who was wanting a computer; it's part of a social
experiment to see how easily I can wean people off Windows.
Meanwhile, here at home I have a laptop with a P133, 48MB RAM,
and a 1.3G hard drive. Because of the disk space limitation,
I'm leaving it on Slackware 7 (kernel 2.2.13), but it runs
fvwm95 quite well. I use it to build Linux versions of the
software I write.
Given your disk space, you should be able to do a full installation
of any distribution. You might want to stick to a lighter window
manager for X (e.g. fvwm95 or Blackbox), but aside from that you
should have no problems.
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