On 12 October 2006 12:21, Karl Huysmans wrote: > Hi All, > > A friend asked me to install "some" operating system on an old Dell laptop > he got for free. > > The laptop has a pentium 2 400 MHz, 6 GB HD and 256 MB RAM, and will be > used by his young children. > > I have tried to install Edubuntu on it, looks nice, has a lot of very > usefull stuff for kids, but it really runs too slow on this machine. > > So I was thinking Gentoo, optimized for PII, I guess -Os would be a good > option for this little machine. Any thoughts anyone? > > What about the desktop? I guess Gnome or KDE is not really the best choice.
With 256MB of ram, KDE should run fine. When the whole thing is installed and ready, don't forget to prelink the whole system. Makes a hell of a lot of a difference when it comes to startup times of apps. Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. http://www.SysEx.com.na -- [email protected] mailing list
