Pete wrote:
>
> I looking for the GUI OS that will do the most on an
> old comp.
For an OS to "do the most", it must have a wide variety
of applications available. This restricts our choice to
a few mainstream OS. I think we can agree that win9x and
winNT are too resource-hungry for an old computer. Ditto
for Linux KDE and Gnome. However, Linux does have some
small-footprint window managers that run very nicely on
a 486. I particularly like icewm. It's fast, lean (300k),
customizable, looks good, and provides lots of functionality.
However, if you have only 8meg RAM (or less), your best
choice for a GUI may be win3x. Or perhaps OS/2 ?
Cheers,
Steven
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