On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 10:56:34 +1200 Reg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So what are you running on the P3 450?
I am running gentoo linux, but that is immaterial. ubuntu or most other distros will allow you to make a minimal (or server) install which means no X windows, and a lot of the bulky programs that require the grunt are not there. It has only a console display, which to a newbie looks like dos, but is in fact waaaay more powerful. I access my bittorrent client via a web browser. But if you want a desktop as opposed to just a server, you could look at running some real low requirement programs. Avoid firefox, openoffice and kde and gnome. Try fluxbox, icewm or openbox (window managers), sylpheed (mail client) and dillo (light web browser), abiword (serviceable word processor). But those options would still benefit from a lot of RAM. Buying enough RAM to boost the machine to 256M might be uneconomic or even impossible.
