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Old 01-05-2007, 04:05 PM   #1
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Need Older Distro's


I live in an area where we have diverse languages and of course MS is unable to support such unless you open the safe.
I have got a Social Worker that needs an OS in other languages. I suggest Linux, However all the distro's we have (SUSE 10.0-10.2 Mandrivia, YellowDog, Red Hat, Linspire, Freespire, And many others are of a newer Kernel. I am looking for older distro's, the systems we are using to stay with in their budget's are P and PII 100-400MHz and the newer distro's will not install.
So does anyone have links to older distro's, Mandrake or Ubuntu preferable
Thanks
Gregory
 
Old 01-05-2007, 04:50 PM   #2
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Slack will run on older hardware just fine. I am running Slack 10.2 with XFCE4 on a 233Mhz Pentium.
 
Old 01-05-2007, 08:29 PM   #3
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TKS, ? is it as easy as Ubuntu? These clients can't speak english so I will need to be able to assist w/o too much completion. I have never used Slack, but will D/L the distro and check it out.
Again TKS.
 
Old 01-05-2007, 09:22 PM   #4
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you might also want to check out:

Vector Linux 4.3
http://www.vectorlinux.com/

DSL
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

Puppy Linux
http://www.puppylinux.org/user/viewpage.php?page_id=3

Slackware
http://www.slackware.com/

SLAX Live CD
http://www.slax.org/

BeaFanatIX
http://bea.cabarel.com/

Elive:
http://www.elivecd.org/

Deli
http://delili.lens.hl-users.com/
 
Old 01-06-2007, 07:47 AM   #5
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A new kernel will work just fine with older hardware, as you don't have to enable it all. The thing that slows everything down is all the bloat that distribution ship(hal,dbus, and all sort of annoying things).
 
Old 01-06-2007, 10:03 AM   #6
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Poneyboy
TKS, ? is it as easy as Ubuntu? These clients can't speak english so I will need to be able to assist w/o too much completion. I have never used Slack, but will D/L the distro and check it out.
Again TKS.
Slack would probably be the best choice, or one of the really small distros(Puppy, DSL, and I'm sure there's others). Ubuntu would probably be a little slow on those machines. If you really want to try Ubuntu on them, I'd probably recommend Xubuntu, not Ubuntu/Kubuntu

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