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[NMLUG] Fast X Distribution for older hardware.
I highly suggest you try a base install of whatever you want to use, I would
try FreeBSD or OpenBSD, I have run them on far less machines. As a matter of
fact, I have a pII 300 with 256MB RAM and 2 4GB hard drives, that runs
FreeBSD with Gnome and it screams. Just tweak the kernel and it should fly.
michael
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 14:24:31 -0800 (PST), 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
>
>
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