[NMLUG] Fast X Distribution for older hardware.

[timothyemerick at yahoo.com (Tim Emerick)]

Thanks for that suggestion Jody.

As a matter of fact I do have a spare P4 Celeron 2.7ish GHZ machine with
512MB ram looking to do some real work.  Wouldn't be a problem to throw some
more ram in it and see how it all works out.

Tim

--- Jody Harris <havoc@harrisdev.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
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