On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Arindam <[email protected]>wrote:
> I have some aging / old desktops for which I am looking for > appropriate distributions. I intend to use them as developer systems > for some kernel development (noo-b there, modest intentions) but > prefer an X installation. > > One desktop is a PIII 733 MHz with Intel 815e chipset, 512 Megs > on-board memory and 40G hard drive. > One is a P4 2.4 GHz with 1 G memory and 40G hard-drive. > > 1. Looked at Xubuntu for the lighter-weight XFCE and installed it on > the P4 box. Liked it quite a bit - my first *buntu box - so far have > only used FC/OpenSuSE. But, I want to hand pick packages that are > installed and all said and done that seems not so straightforward with > *buntus. Am I wrong there? > > 2. Are there Gentoo users who can tell me about their experience with > Gentoo. Is it too much of a bother in the long run to perform software > upgrades? > > 3. Any other lightweight but not too minimalistic distros? > > With 512MB you can even have the Ubuntu Desktop with the full GUI. Just don't opt for the advanced UI like compiz and all. -- Raseel _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
