Quoting John Marcotte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I have an old Dell Optiplex GS+ in my office. I thought It might make a > dandy little Linux box, but it's pretty darn slow by today's standards. > > At a cool 200MHz at a whopping 32MB of RAM, I think a current distro > would run poorly (if at all) on the box.
Your amount of RAM is marginal, but you could get by with lightweight window managers, no GNOME/KDE cruft, and lightweight X11 applications. But see about getting another stick of RAM. If nowhere else: http://www.satech.com/ And I might point out: http://shop.store.yahoo.com/memx/optiplexgs1.html My little 1998 Sony VAIO is still a perfectly satisfactory Linux desktop box (running Window Maker, as provided by Debian 3.0 "sarge"). It has a Pentium MMX/233 -- no problem at all, because I long ago upgraded it to have 128 MB system RAM. > So my question is: What version of Linux should I put on this little > guy? I'd like to use it as an internet terminal and word processor. Slackware, Debian, Arch, Gentoo, etc. -- Cheers, The cynics among us might say: "We laugh, Rick Moen monkeyboys -- Linux IS the mainstream UNIX now! [EMAIL PROTECTED] MuaHaHaHa!" but that would be rude. -- Jim Dennis _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
