looking for a distro...

someone Awesome · 07-15-2009, 03:01 PM

hi!
I have been using Linux for a few month now and i am quite pleased with it...
but, i find ubuntu quite boring and slow (i would have sticked to it if it wasn't that damn slow on my older machine).
so i tried Linux mint and it has a nicer menu but honestly, its ubuntu in a diffrent shell...

my pc hardware:
Pentium 4 3.00 GHZ.
512 Mb ram
built in intel graphics (don't remmber model...)

I was thinking of slackware, what do you say?

repo · 07-15-2009, 03:05 PM

puppy, tiny core, DSL, debian ...

someone Awesome · 07-15-2009, 03:08 PM

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puppy, tiny core, DSL,

come on, its not that old...
it runs ubuntu quite fine but slow when i open alot of windows...

repo · 07-15-2009, 03:14 PM

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512 Mb ram

Add some ram.

someone Awesome · 07-15-2009, 03:17 PM

don't want to (also i maxed up the space in the mother board0

come on, the all idea of linux is being able to work with old computers...

repo · 07-15-2009, 03:18 PM

Then use a lightweight windowmanager, not GNOME or KDE

someone Awesome · 07-15-2009, 03:33 PM

what would you recommend as a windowmanager?

linus72 · 07-15-2009, 03:46 PM

Check out new Sidux with xfce it's great off usb or hd
( http://distrowatch.com/ )
I been messing with it and it works good too.

bugman5 · 07-15-2009, 04:19 PM

my computer is older than yours, and slackware [10.2] runs just fine on it

but i usually use puppy anyways, it is quite a bit faster

computerophil · 07-15-2009, 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by someone Awesome

hi!
I have been using Linux for a few month now and i am quite pleased with it...
but, i find ubuntu quite boring and slow (i would have sticked to it if it wasn't that damn slow on my older machine).
so i tried Linux mint and it has a nicer menu but honestly, its ubuntu in a diffrent shell...

my pc hardware:
Pentium 4 3.00 GHZ.
512 Mb ram
built in intel graphics (don't remmber model...)

I was thinking of slackware, what do you say?

Your Computer isn't old at all and 512MB isn't litte RAM.
But you have to be happy with your distro.
The only way is you try various via LiveCDs.
I recommend:

openmamba (KDE)
SAM (Xfce)
Knoppix(LXDE)
PUPPY(JWM)
Mandriva(GNOME, KDE)
sidux(KDE,XFCE)

Divert yourself in trying out.

linus72 · 07-15-2009, 04:33 PM

How big is hd?
you should go multidistro dude
I got like 12 distro's on my 8 partition 180gb hd
some are frugal

shankar · 07-23-2009, 01:53 PM

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but, i find Ubuntu quite boring and slow

I agree with you.In fact,I have 256MB RAM.But 512MB isn't little, You be getting good performance with that.

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I was thinking of Slackware, what do you say?

I have used Slackware.It is faster.