Re: [LUG] Which distro???

[Peter Butterfield <p.butterfield1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> It's going to be less an issue of specific distro and more one of specific
> packages, I suspect. Look towards lightweight window-managers (eg fluxbox
> etc) rather than trying to get KDE/Gnome to run... similarly you'll need
> low-resource alternatives to OO (abiword?) etc.

I agree with Matt. I tried Mandrake 9.1 with KDE on a P166 with 96MB ram and 
it struggled. Took over 5mins to load. These machines were designed for use 
with Win 3.1, 95, and 98 (just). Linux users were still mostly enjoying 
shells with coloured text and possibly fvwm or similar.

All the best,
Peter.

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