Linux speed issues, questions...

javaarmy · 11-02-2003, 05:18 PM

My computer is a 700mhz pentium with 191mb ram. It runs Windows 98 pretty well. Anyway, I am wanting to know if any of you can suggest a distro and version that would work well for my stats. I've tried Lindows and it ran decently quickly. I am looking for one similiar to Mandrake with KDE or Gnome.

linuxbotx · 11-02-2003, 05:30 PM

Linux doesn't really take up much resources. They should all run pretty much the same. KDE in Lindows is KDE in Mandrake. If you want somthing like Mandrake, download Mandrake.

mysterio · 11-02-2003, 07:33 PM

I have a 700mhz amd athalon, 256 mb ram, and I'm running mandrake using kde and it runs good just as fast as win 98, if not faster.

trickykid · 11-02-2003, 08:25 PM

Remove services you won't or don't use and don't install anything you won't need and you can get any system to run fairly fast with what you have.

I just installed Slackware 9.0 on a Pentium 233mhz with 128mb of RAM and I've got it down so it boots up in about 25 seconds and running a lightweight desktop manager like XFce and WindowMaker and it is faster than any Windows install I've ever used on a machine that slow.

Cheers.