[Ilugc] Which distro is suitable for PIII 700MHz and 128MB RAM

From: Toufeeq_Hussain@xxxxxxxxxxx (Toufeeq Hussain)
Date: Thu Jan 27 09:58:22 2005

Hi,

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[mailto:ilugc-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ramkumar R
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 9:46 AM
To: Shakthi Kannan
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Subject: Re: [Ilugc] Which distro is suitable for PIII 700MHz
and 128MB RAM

please check your configuration well before changing the distribution
- most often the config is the problem rather than the distro
- may be you have unnecessary servers running....choice of
applications also matter - gnome/kde apps tend to be bloated
- e.g. xterm is much better and faster than gnome-terminal
sans the backgrounds - maybe aterm if you really insist on
the backgrounds...changing distros may not really help...

it moves on...

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 00:34:01 -0800 (PST), Shakthi Kannan
<cyborg4k@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

--- ignacius nallu <igni_linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Please suggest any other distro that will be fast for this
hardware....

I used Slackware 9.1 earlier on my 500 MHz, 128 MB RAM Celeron
(Mendacino) R&D system. Now using Knoppix 3.6 installed to

hard disk

with Fluxbox.

K Shakthi

Slackware wins hands down when it comes to Linux Distributions on "old"
PC's.
I had a slackware 8.0 installtion on my old P166 with 64 MB RAM.

Worked out real good for me.

Regards,
Toufeeq Hussain

[Ilugc] Which distro is suitable for PIII 700MHz and 128MB RAM

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