[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux on old machines

[Mike]

Recommendations for low end pentiums

1. Red Hat 6.2 
2. Debian Potato 

You need to get more RAM into them to be usable... X-windows 
on linux isn't very friendly with less than 32meg of 
memory, no matter what distro you try. If you are stuck 
with 16 meg. I recommend red hat 6.x  I went thru a lot of 
distro's with that configuration (p120/16meg) and red hat 
had the zippiest X, and was rock solid.  I didn't like it 
because Post-Install configuration was the least friendly 
of any distro I tried (when using k-desktop anyway... i 
heard later that gnome for redhat 6 looked a lot different 
than k)



On Wednesday 11 December 2002 10:52 am, chris at chrisbaker.net 
wrote:
> I work for a non-profit. We were recently donated some
> six-year-old machines with 16MB and P-120/133 processors.
> They won't be used for much more than web browsing and
> checking web-based e-mail.
>
> What's the best thing to install on them? The newer
> versions of Linux don't seem to be as usable with old
> hardware as they used to be. Hard drives are about 1GB.
>
> Chris
>
>
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