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Personal experience with 20 old
classroom Pentiums ranging from 70 to 133 mhz: RH 6.2 is really slow with 16
meg, but if you bump it up just a little, to 24meg, it even runs gnome and
Netscape acceptably well. If you bring it up to 32 meg, everything works just
fine. RH 7.x seems to overtax the resources of slower Pentiums, so I've stuck
with 6.2 so far.
I am
planning on rebirthing some decrepid P133 16MB 1GB Windows machines as Linux
word processing and internet terminals. Can anyone recommend a
distribution? I was planning on
using Red Hat, since it seems the most widely available, but someone
suggested that it might be too large and that I should try a ‘light
weight’ distribution such as Slackware. I was unaware that there were any
differences in distributions from a hardware requirement standpoint. Can anyone suggest a distribution
for this purpose?
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