[Fwd: Re: [seul-edu] appropriate lightweight distribution]

[Doug Loss <drloss@suscom.net>]

owner-seul-edu@seul.org wrote:

> To: seul-edu@seul.org
> Subject: Re: [seul-edu] appropriate lightweight distribution
> From: Jennifer Dozar <jennifer@orange.zorcat.com>
>
> Have you tried using Debian? espeically Dabian-Jr for school labs (if in
> elementary school atmosphere)  Debian, at least in my experience, works
> fairly well on old hardware.  If Mandrake is slwoing you down, try
> another distro. You can download debian from  www.debian.org.
>
> Jennifer
>
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 11:26:26AM +0000, Jeff Nelson wrote:
> > I'd just like to add that Linux-Mandrake should be about 10% faster than Red
> > Hat because Mandrake compiles in Pentium optimizations.
> >
> > Last year I used the then-latest Mandrake (6.1) on some older Pentiums
> > without any trouble.  A recent Mandrake like 8.0 might even be OK, but I
> > haven't tried that recently.
> >
> > Definitely bump up the RAM if possible.  Sometimes www.hitechcafe.com runs
> > good specials on old RAM.
> >
> > Two months ago I got RH 6.1 and X to run acceptably well on a 486/100 with
> > 12MB of RAM.  I used flwm.  It was usable for most things but on heavier apps
> > it had to access swap a lot.
> >
> > Jeff Nelson
> >




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