Distro help, anyone

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08-09-2005
myinnershadow

Distro help, anyone

I have installed fedora on at least 100 computers (including redhat 7.3 from ... wow iv been dooing this a wile) to the point i cant seam to strip anything enough (thats recent) to work fast on an old computer

400Mhz
64MB ram
7ish gig HD
16mb gc
nic card

all i need is a basic gui and thunderbird (LOVE IT, HATE EVOLUTION) like email, gaim, open office (or like), and any browser.

i can install them myself i just need a distro that well be fast on thoese spects to start. i dont know anything but fedora and how to slap a knoppix cd in.

thanks
08-09-2005
rootFORlife

mabe damn small linux or slackware, my friend runs a 64mhz p1 with slackware running a low level desktop like xfce for example but yea try and distro with xfce
08-09-2005
ordoni

debian sarge.................net install
08-09-2005
myinnershadow

Damn it is

Thanks
08-09-2005
DougMills

You might want to try Yellowdog Linux. I heard it's very good for older, small computers. I haven't actually tried it, but I heard its a good solution.
08-09-2005
bigtomrodney

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Originally Posted by DougMills

You might want to try Yellowdog Linux. I heard it's very good for older, small computers. I haven't actually tried it, but I heard its a good solution.

I think Yellowdog is for PPC only. A RH clone for PPC IIRC.
08-09-2005
RustamB

IMHO it's not so critical which distro you use. KDE or GNOME will cause performance slowdown with any distro on machine like that. Install minimal configuration of desired distro with other window manager, WindowMaker for example, it's very resource saving.
08-09-2005
psic

On those specs, I'd go with Vector Standard (the new 5.1 just came out a little while ago). I'd also suggest abiword (for reading .doc files), openoffice will be a bit slow. Go with a light WM (Vector includes Xfce (my favourite), fluxbox, and I think IceWM as well). Also, in your place I would manually compile most of the programs. I'd just install the base sistem, a couple of WM's, thunderbird and firefox, then compile everything else (abiword, gaim, and possibly OOffice).
08-16-2005
chopin1810

Quote:

Originally Posted by rootFORlife

mabe damn small linux or slackware, my friend runs a 64mhz p1 with slackware running a low level desktop like xfce for example but yea try and distro with xfce

Don't reccommend Slackware unless you're sure they are ready to deal with an old fashioned UNIX based Linux distribution.
08-16-2005
drakebasher

Quote:

Originally Posted by chopin1810

Don't reccommend Slackware unless you're sure they are ready to deal with an old fashioned UNIX based Linux distribution.

I disagree. Sure, it's more work than Fedora, but much much less than Gentoo. And it's got great built-in support, in my opinion: Whenever a decision is needed during install, there are notes giving pros and cons as well as something like: "if you don't know what that means, better choose x". I think for anyone who has done a couple of installs and spent a few months with Linux would do well with Slackware.