On 12/25/05, Robert Citek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Three questions: > > 1) would folks here recommend Kubuntu or Ubuntu on a low-end machine: > 450 MHz, <128 MB RAM, 6 GB HDD?
I installed NetBSD on a machine at work that had 96 MB RAM. The only desktop enviornment I had available on the CD was Kde and it ran very slowly. I would suggest using Blackbox or some other light weight window manager. You can use Rox-filer as the file manager. It ues drag and drop and works better than the file managers from the major projects. It too has a low memory requirement. Rox is partially coded in Python so it installs fast. http://rox.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/static.html > The criteria for ranking include speed and applications. On a low- > end machine would Kubuntu run faster than Ubuntu? Probably not (I know Scott will rant about this) Kde is huge and basically a copy of Windows 2000 + bugs. I tried to demo Kde to my boss and Kwrite took forever to load. We finally gave up thinking it had segfaulted and crashed. This was on the 96 MB machine. The next day I saw it had loaded. I don't think Gnome will be any better. You may want to look at Edubuntu: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=edubuntu EXCERPT: Edubuntu is a partner project of Ubuntu Linux, a distribution suitable for classroom use. The aim is that an educator with limited technical knowledge and skill will be able to set up a computer lab, or establish an on-line learning environment, in an hour or less, and then administer that environment without having to become a fully-fledged Linux geek. > > BTW, I'm all ears for questions and suggestions to pass on to ByteWorks. Give them the Feather Linux. Distrowatch has a page on it here: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=feather -- Kind regards, Jonathan _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
