On 4/21/06, David J. Ring, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If you are not faint of heart, you could try Gentoo... But that's only for the strong-willed. Debian has run incredibly well on slower machines in my experience while running something as heavy-weight as Gnome. Even on fast machines Mandriva's default install seems to creep along. Of course the extreme of the measures might be something like DamnSmall - but I have no personal experience with it.
Otherwise the advice of recompiling the kernel and using a light-weight WM are the best advice that can be given.
--Greg
Unfortunately with the distributions I've tried, I find they run much slower
on older machines - much slower than Windows XP - which surprises me. I
have one machine that is a Pentium 3 at about 550 MHz with 64 MB RAM and it
is slower than a slothful man at work time. Ringht now I'm running on
Mandriva Linux 2006 and it just creeps when doing anything.
Anyone have a recommendation for a linux distro that runs quickly on old
machines?
If you are not faint of heart, you could try Gentoo... But that's only for the strong-willed. Debian has run incredibly well on slower machines in my experience while running something as heavy-weight as Gnome. Even on fast machines Mandriva's default install seems to creep along. Of course the extreme of the measures might be something like DamnSmall - but I have no personal experience with it.
Otherwise the advice of recompiling the kernel and using a light-weight WM are the best advice that can be given.
--Greg
Best Wishes,
David Ring
Green Harbor, MA
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