On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 08:46:26AM +0530, Santanu Chatterjee wrote: > > I am looking for the fastest Linux distro for my > Celeron 400MHz, 64MB RAM system. >
There won't be any significant variances in speed from one distro to another. What slows down the system is the amount of processes and daemons that you are running concurrently. > > I have tried a number of distros, of which I liked best Slack- > ware 8, but it does not come with a lot of software. > I am personally in favour of Slack, because one of the distros on my box has always been Slack since 1995. However, I have never felt the lack of software in Slack. Most long time Slack users prefer to compile software from developer tarballs on their own boxes and install ... All essential libraries are there, and they don't break ... > > So, I have decided to buy Debian from linuxcampus. But the pro- > blem is this: should I go for Potato 2.2r5 or woody which is in > beta stage. > Debian is one of the best, if pre-compiled stuff is what you are looking for. Woody is the thing to go for, and you can apt-get over 7000 packages from the net ... though the "official" status is beta, it has been around for almost a year now ... and it is quite stable and very much usable ... Dont dabble with "Sid" as yet though ... > > Potato comes with kernel 2.2.19 and XFree86 3.3.6.If this com- > bination works directly with i810 video,then I will go for it. > I think sticking to kernel 2.2.x will make the system faster > (not sure). > I personally don't think there is any difference in speed as far as the kernel is concerned. If you stick to default modules and processes/ daemons, 2.4.x is just as fast, if not faster ... You have better hardware support in 2.4.x. > > Even if Potato does not work directly with i810, using the > 2.2.19 kernel, I am ready to tweak things as long as I do > not have to download anything. > Unless you have severe bandwidth problems, I am afraid you would need to download a fair amount of things. In debian essential upgrades, security updates of packages occur quite frequently, and I am yet to see an up-to-date CD release.As it is, debian is pretty slow about release of CDs since unlike commercial houses like RH, SuSE or Mandrake, it has no packaging setup of its own. Besides, with phobia for downloads you will lose the "apt-get" advantage. > > If not, I am also willing to buy woody (3CD) if you can tell > me whether the installation program is mature enough.I want to > do a fresh install of Debian on my system. > I don't understand the term "installation program". All it needs is the base install, and thereafter packages are added. For base install you need only a few disks, and they are rock stable. The package management is through tried and tested dpkg. It is rock stable as well ... even apt-get has no hitches ... Just my 2p Bish -- : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : Some useful bash prompts LOST #190 PS1="\u@\h \w \!$ " PS1='(\[$(tput md)\]\t <\w>\[$(tput me)\]) $(echo $?) \$ ' PS1="$(echo -e '\103'):\$(pwd | tr '/[a-z]' '\134\134[A-Z]')> " ####<From: freebsd fortune>################################### : _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
