[NMLUG] Re: [nmglug] Fast X Distribution for older hardware.

[michaelm at nnmcc.edu (Michael Maddex)]

Or try ICE or no desktop at all . . . just launch X straight into the browser.
I've never done that, but I'm sure that it's possible.

Anthony Martinez said:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 02:24:31PM -0800, Tim Emerick
> carved this out of pure phosphors:
>> I have about a dozen machines with the following configuration:
>> PII-Celeron 300 Mhz
>> 3 gig HD's
>> 160MB RAM
>> 3com 3c905b NIC
>> ATI Rage 3D on board
>> Yamaha Sound on board
>>
>> I've been really hopeful that I could recycle these into some decent web
>> browsing machines but have been fairly disappointed with the results up to
>> this point.
>>
>> I've used the Knoppix Live CD and the MEPIS (www.mepis.org) Live CD and
>> wasn't too impressed.  I've also installed the MEPIS distro onto the HD of
>> one machine just to see how it worked.  Again, fairly dismal.
>>
>> I want to know if I'm asking too much for these older machines or am I
>> running  packages that are too top heavy?  I know that both Knoppix and Mepis
>> are Debian/KDE based distros.
>
> Try using Debian Potato, with WindowMaker. a couple of friends of mine use it on
> their 486/PPC 603 laptops, and it's fairly responsive.
>
> KDE3 is WAY too heavy for these boxes, but potato's 2.2 install might be okay.
>
>>
>> Anybody have any experience with other distro's that might give me a speedy
>> yet user-friendly desktop and browser on these older machines?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
>>
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