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Distribution: Suse Linux 9.3 Pro Red Hat 9 (long ago)
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Light Linux ?
Hey I was wondering what is the best software combonation to make Linux light and responsive. Right now, I use Red Hat Linux 9 and its a bit sluggish execution wise.
My Specs
600 MHZ Celeron
384 MB RAM
120 GB HD
I use Mozilla Firefox since when I had Windows it was a lot faster and more responsive than IE, since IE is wrapped in the OS.
I am looking to build my own PC with 2 17" LCDs, and make it a really great system.
I spec'd out the components and everything would cost me around $500 for the CPU unit and $700 for the LCDs.
Distribution: Slackware, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X
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your best bet would probably be to try some different window managers like fluxbox, blackbox, etc. until you find one that gives you the responsiveness your looking for. my personal choice of os is slack, you'll get alot of different opinions, again your best bet is try them and see for yourself.
good luck.
Which version did you try? 0.9.9 is a bit different from 0.1.14. And, yeah, themes. Or you could try any number of others - ice, xfce, windowmaker, whatever. If you want to go full tilt, try a different distro, as I understand RH is pretty sluggish for many. Or try turning off startup processes and whatnot. I would think with those specs it would do all right, though.
Distribution: Gentoo 2004.2: Who needs exmmpkg when you have emerge?
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Did that 486 come with a CD drive? Im curious because I have an old 486 w/o a CDROM drive, and Ive been looking for a distro that installs using a floppy. Does Slack do that?
Originally posted by LavaDevil94 Did that 486 come with a CD drive? Im curious because I have an old 486 w/o a CDROM drive, and Ive been looking for a distro that installs using a floppy. Does Slack do that?
Originally posted by LavaDevil94 Did that 486 come with a CD drive? Im curious because I have an old 486 w/o a CDROM drive, and Ive been looking for a distro that installs using a floppy. Does Slack do that?
There is an old CD-drive on my self-made 486, connected to the soundcard, but i didn't used it to install. I booted from floppies, then i used a normal CD-drive as install source.
You can install from HD too, from a partition where you copied the slack-cd folders.
NFS install via network must be fun too (i havn't got the chance to do this yet ).
Last edited by Linux.tar.gz; 05-11-2004 at 11:20 PM.
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