[nmglug] Fast X Distribution for older hardware.
Tim Emerick
timothyemerick at yahoo.com
Wed Dec 15 23:04:27 PST 2004
I used the latest Sarge install to install just a base system. Then used
apt-get x-window-system icewm mozilla-firefox
to get what seemed like a minimal desktop. I was surprised by how great it
worked compared to the KDE based distro's (knoppix and Simply Mepis).
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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