Hi.
We have a P233 machine in our office with 96Mb ram. It's been running Windows 98 for the last few years and it would be good to move it to something less moribund. I installed Mandriva on it but it runs like a dog, compared to Win98. Can anyone suggest a distro that will turn our dinosaur into a usable office machine? I was thinking maybe Gentoo + distcc. Any recommendations?
Cheers,
Joe
Hi,
On 28 Apr 2005, at 13:25, Joe Button wrote:
We have a P233 machine in our office with 96Mb ram. It's been running Windows 98 for the last few years and it would be good to move it to something less moribund. I installed Mandriva on it but it runs like a dog, compared to Win98. Can anyone suggest a distro that will turn our dinosaur into a usable office machine? I was thinking maybe Gentoo + distcc. Any recommendations?
Peanut Linux used to be perfect for that. It appears to have changed now. The closed I could find was http://www.damnsmalllinux.org which looks fairly interesting.
Cheers
David
On Thursday 28 April 2005 1:10 pm, David Reynolds wrote:
Peanut Linux used to be perfect for that. It appears to have changed now. The closed I could find was http://www.damnsmalllinux.org which looks fairly interesting.
DSL is pretty nice, I run it from a qemu virtual machine booting from a memory stick (loads on top of any Windows or Linux box) It's obviously not as pretty or feature rich as some setups but pretty useable for general mail and web things out of the box (Firefox runs quite well on it) and fluxbox is functional if not the prettiest UI on the planet. If you find Firefox a bit slow on your machine then Dillo is a rocket.
An arrow shot into the air -- At the Littleport Charity Shop (about 3 miles from where I live), today I saw in the window a PC box (Pentium 200 with 128MB if I recall correctly) for 40 quid, with a label on it which said something like:
Slackware Linux installed Linux experience required Geek machine!
Was this donated by one of us?
If not, I'll try to find out who it was and suggest they join up with us.
If so, on the other hand, then please own up and save me the trouble!
Best wishes to all, Ted.
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We have a P233 machine in our office with 96Mb ram. It's been running Windows 98 for the last few years and it would be good to move it to something less moribund. I installed Mandriva on it but it runs like a dog, compared to Win98. Can anyone suggest a distro that will turn our dinosaur into a usable office machine? I was thinking maybe Gentoo + distcc. Any recommendations?
I would have thought that almost anything would run OK.
Some Linux distros take longer to load than (even) Windows, but they tend to run faster once loaded.
I sometimes run Knoppix from CD on a 233 MMX Windows box, and it's like lightning compared with Win 98SE.
And it only has 64 MB RAM.
On 4/28/05, Joe Button alug2@joebutton.co.uk wrote:
We have a P233 machine in our office with 96Mb ram. It's been running Windows 98 for the last few years and it would be good to move it to something less moribund. I installed Mandriva on it but it runs like a dog, compared to Win98. Can anyone suggest a distro that will turn our dinosaur into a usable office machine? I was thinking maybe Gentoo + distcc. Any recommendations?
Since no one else has recommended it yet, I suggest Debian Woody.
I relegated my P233 to the role of firewall last year. Have fun!
Tim.
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