[nmglug] Fast X Distribution for older hardware.

[Anthony Martinez]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 02:50:56PM -0800, Tim Emerick 
carved this out of pure phosphors:
> 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.

Potato was the old debian stable. It's about 4 or 5 years old, and is very
lightweight.

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

Hmm. www.windowmaker.org perhaps 

> 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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