8 Apr
2006
8 Apr
'06
5:03 p.m.
Simon Royal wrote:
Hi
I am looking at different distros. I need high hardware compatibility, ease of use for newbies plus reasonable speed out of dated hardware.
I have yet to find a laptop, but have been looking at anything from Pentium 2 300Mhz upwards.
The problem with the major distros you mentioned is their preferenece for Gnome and KDE desktops which are too CPU and memory hungry for an old system.
I use Zenwalk, a Slackware based distro, that is fast and light (xfce desktop) onmy two old PCs. Wokrs fine.
Ian