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01-01-2002, 10:19 AM
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? Best Distro for Old PC's ?
What is the best Distro for an old PC, say a 486 or Pentium 100 with limited RAM and small HD? Don't need all the bells and whistles, would like to still run KDE.
Would appreciate hearing your opinions Juanito |
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01-01-2002, 10:56 AM
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IMO, Without question a RedHat 5.2 or a Slackware with a 2.0.xx kernel in it. I still use the 2.0.xx kernels and the 2.2.xx kernels. I prefer them to 2.4 in a lot of cases
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01-02-2002, 08:04 AM
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RH 6.0 is a good choice,I used to run it in my old pentium 166 PC and the installation time is less than 10 minutes with KDE and gnome installed.
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01-02-2002, 01:20 PM
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What do you mean by "limited ram?" Don't expect to run KDE smoothly if you have less than 32 meg. I'd suggest you plan on 64.
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01-02-2002, 08:38 PM
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ram
If I don't have one with 65 megs lying around, I have enough old memory to fill it out to 64 or so. By today's standards, 64 Megs is Limited Some of the old Unix systems ran on 64 K Bites, if my memory serves me right.
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01-02-2002, 08:55 PM
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Running KDE can be a problem. It seems to me that KDE runs pretty good at 128M of RAM but too much disk thrashing with only 64. I have Slackware 7.1 running on a P200 and E-Smith running on a P166. Both have 64M of RAM but I rarely use KDE or any other gui on them. The work pretty well as file/web servers.
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