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[NMLUG] Fast X Distribution for older hardware.
On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 15:24, 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 still haven't tried the Knoppix kiosk distros...
but I have run WWW browsers on far less hardware very cleanly.
Firefox should run happily on that, under a lightweight
windowmanager like FVWM95.
Perhaps I will continue to finish my lightweight debian
install for a machine to give to Cafe Riviera...
--
Aaron Birenboim \ I have an inferiority complex,
Albuquerque, NM, USA \ but its not a very good one.
aaron at birenboim.com \
http://aaron.birenboim.com \
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