[nmglug] Fast X Distribution for older hardware.

[Tim Emerick]

I'm fairly new to Linux so the term potato is unfamiliar to me.  I'm actually
in the middle of Debian/Sarge install right now.  I really do like the new
installer.

Is Potato the same as the Debian 3.0 installer?

I tried WindowMaker on the desktop on my very first debian install.  Having
come from a Microsoft windows background I was very confused with how it
worked, how to place icons on the desktop, etc.  I almost gave up on trying
linux until I found KDE which renewed my interest.

I would be very interested in learning WindowMaker if I could find a tutorial
online other than the dry man pages and such.

Thanks!

Tim


--- Anthony Martinez <pi at pihost.us> wrote:

> 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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