Slackware on old pc

patisawsome · 11-23-2004, 06:00 PM

I have an old pentium1 200 mhz pc . Does anyone have any suggestions of a distro a slackware I should use on it.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions

acid_kewpie · 11-23-2004, 06:03 PM

the newest versions should work ok. just don't try to do anything too fancy on it.

mdarby · 11-23-2004, 06:43 PM

Slackware will work fine, just don't expect to run a desktop environment

BrianW · 11-23-2004, 06:55 PM

I have a Pentium 233MHz computer with 64mb ram running slackware 10.0. Everything works fine and it still pretty responsive when at the terminal. However, to use a X I can only run Fluxbox and there is noticeable lag.

patisawsome · 11-23-2004, 07:39 PM

If i were to run an older version of slackware would i beable to run a graphical enviroment.

mixtr · 11-23-2004, 07:49 PM

nah, I run Slack 10 with fluxbox on a P100 w/mb RAM, works just fine
I also tried with XFCE, just a bit slower
of course, compiling a kernel takes over an hour...

mdarby · 11-23-2004, 07:50 PM

not likely. As mentioned, you might be able to get away with a light DE, like fluxbox, xfce, or blackbox.

patisawsome · 11-23-2004, 08:20 PM

Thanks for the help

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