On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 01:01:03PM -0800, John Oliver wrote: > I have a P II 266 4GB disk 96MB RAM machine I want to give to someone > for her son to use. I just threw away a bunch of old CDs, including > ancient Linux CDs and the NT Workstation 4.0 that is supported on this > box :-) What distro will result in a decent experience on this > hardware? I have a feeling I'm not going to want KDE or Gnome... maybe > some really lightweight window manager so it can have a browser, word > processor, maybe graphics, some games, etc. >
I keep RH 7.3 for machines like this. It works adequately, even Gnome, although a lighter weight WM would be better. I also keep RH 6.2 for 486 CPUs and 16 M RAM. Ya never know. If Rich can't get you these CDs, post back and I'll burn a set. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- KPLUG-List mailing list [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
