On Monday 07 June 2010 08:55 AM, Sanket Shah wrote: > I will write about my experience with older machines, lot of things on web > for Foss + old hardware. > > I've worked with CENT OS 4.1 on a 900 mhz p3 512 ram machine doing > qt/c++/opengl development. Machine was slow for testing but ok enuf for > devlopment, had kde 3.5 that worked well. However centos is short on > packages by default and you would have to install them once. But it works on > lesser hardware. > > In general u can try older distros... > > In Jan I downloaded the 'latest' CentOS 5.1 for a govt. office and this latest distro had kernel 2.6.18, when 2.6.30/32 was already out. They are way behind even Debian Lenny which has 2.6.26.
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