Kurt Griffiths wrote: > Hi folks, > > We have some old P3s we are setting up to play retro LAN games (such > as 'Craft) ala Wine. What would everyone recommend as a good Linux distro > for these older machines? I need something small and fast. Already tried > Ubuntu, and it was too slow. Next I am going to try VectorLinux. Since the > system requirements for these games are something like a Pentium 90 MHz, I > would expect to be able to get them running fine on a P3 1.0 GHz!
In my humble opinion, if Ubuntu was too slow, so would VectorLinux be slow. What about ubuntu was slow, exactly? If it was the desktop environment and memory footprint, consider Xubuntu. Personally, I have put Xubuntu on several sub-1 GHz machines and it was just fine. > > Any tips would be greatly appreciated! > -- Michael Torrie Assistant CSR, System Administrator Chemistry and Biochemistry Department Brigham Young University Provo, UT 84602 +1.801.422.5771 /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
