|
[Date Prev][Date Next]
[Chronological]
[Thread]
[Top]
[NMLUG] Fast X Distribution for older hardware.
Tim,
the machine I sit at and work from every day is a PII 366 w/288MB RAM,
20 GB hard drive and a burned up CD-ROM drive.
I run SUSE LINUX 9.2, KDE, OpenOffice.org, Firefox, Konsole, Thunderbird
and Kontact.
How?
When I log onto this machine, I log into SUSE's "failsafe," which gives
me X and an xterm. From there, I ssh (-CX) to the AthlonXP 2500+/1GB
RAM in the back room, and kick off my KDE desktop with startkde.
viola! Life is good AND fast.
Now, all you have to have is one good, fast, well endowed (RAM) machine,
and you can multiply it into a dozen good, fast kiosks. You could build
the fast machine for less than $500.00, probably. Depending on what you
limited the clients to, you might get away with less for all 12
"kiosks." If you use a less greedy desktop, you're golden for sure.
jody
Tim Emerick wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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
--
http://www.RealizationSystems.com/ -- start communicating
http://www.GalacticSlacker.com/ -- read it and weep
http://www.NMPerspective.com/ -- a Southwest Perspective
|
|
