[nmglug] Fast X Distribution for older hardware.

[Anthony Martinez]

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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