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Re: [LUG] Old PCs



On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 11:11:59AM +0100, Julian Hall wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm also interested in running Linux on a low spec PC.. 486 laptop /w
> 16Mb RAM is the lowest spec.  A lot of people have said "Linux runs
> happily on low spec PCs" but what I am now coming to realise is they
> meant "Linux runs happily in COMMAND LINE on low spec PCs".
> 
> Could anyone suggest the best (smallest) Window Manager to run, say
> Vector or Peanut Linux using XFree? KDE seems a tad overkill and Gnome
> is not a whole heck of a lot better :)

You could try blackbox or fvwm. If you are really brave you
could try twm. N.B. even a lightweight window manager won't
help much if you intend running Mozilla or Openoffice.org

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