Hello!
i have an old desktop computer ( my own old comp) with hardware as processor pentium 3 533MHz with 133 mhz fsb, 512 Mb RAM, 40 Gb HDD ( pata, sure ), motherboard is on intel i44BX chipset, nvidia geforce MX2 - 400 AGP videocard if i remember correctly.
i switch it off, and go on newer computer as desktop approx in 2005.
but in this times, wife a says, he a require his own desktop computer. he uses generally web, mail, openoffice for work with excel tables and so.
a question is: i can set on that computer mandriva 2010 distro? it runs on that computer fast enought?
maybe anyone try set mandriva 2009 / 2010 on such similar hardware?

PS prefferable X manager for me and wife is KDE...
thanks

I ran Mandy, and still do on a Compaq desktop, with about the same hardware. Mandy should run fine on that. One of thes4e days I will update that machine, it still running 2008.1.

I would suggest you do not install KDE4, try either Gnome, or XFCE. KDE4 sucks up a lot of resource, and you are a little short on ram and cpu speed.

ok, thanks for info.
thinking too about slackware or mandriva.
in last time, when my wife uses a desktop ( approx 5 years ago), it use a slackware with enlightment x manager on pentium2 333 jr 350 MHz and approx a 128 mb ram. all works fine, but consume much time to set-up the system, configure all, download and install java, openoffice, and so on.
mandriva in this case is have an openoffice and lot of others soft "out of the box"...
on others side, slackware systems in past works a bit faster and use a smaller amounts of memory in such similar configuration and so...

install it. on memory consumption - not a bad,after load even in kde4, uses only approx 200 megabytes of ram. with processor -all is not so good. in iddle processor load is approx 30 - 40 percent
on playing mp3 in xmms processor load is approx 60 percent - very much ( a long time ago on pentium I 166 MMX in linux on playing mp3 processor loads only approx 22 percent! )
even lxde ( light desktop manager ) all not so good, as i want it. try to reinstall to slackware and compile my own kernel - maybe then working efficiency grow up...

Check out Debian's livecd for lxde or xfce...

http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/...e/i386/iso-cd/