On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 08:28:49PM -0700, Carlos wrote: > i'm recently thinking of migrating all the > workstations in a school computer laboratory to > linux... the specs of the comps are 500mhz celeron, 64 > mb ram... 8 gig harddrive. i've tried mdk.. suse... > lycoris... redhat.. even slackware.. but they all > crawl in the comps.. kahit yung simple lang na window > manager ang gamit ko. are there anymore distro's you > people could suggest for such slow computers??
Ahem. My laptop has almost exactly the same specs as your machines. I also have a 500 MHz processor, 64 MB of RAM, 8 GB set aside for Linux on a 10 GB hard drive. This is probably even less than what you've got, given that this is an IBM ThinkPad with a slow disk and parts optimized for power efficiency, rather than speed. What have I been running on it? Lately, Gentoo (thank God for distcc!), and before that Red Hat 7.3 and 8. What window manager do I use? I've always used WindowMaker, and it seems pretty snappy. Heck, I even run Emacs and Firefox at the same time on my laptop, and it seems fine to me. Just forget about running KDE or Gnome or any of them bloated desktop environments. -- dido Sans les mathematiques on ne penetre point au fond de la philosophie. Sans la philosophie on ne penetre point au fond des mathematiques. Sans les deux on ne penetre au fond de rien. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
