gday gday

i've just inherited an older PC and was wondering which version of slackware would suit it.

Pentium III 500
128MB RAM
32MB Video Card

I would love a release with Enlightenment

ideas?

I've got a computer with the same specs running Slackware 10 on it. It doesn't have Enlightenment, but it has Fluxbox, Blackbox, Window Maker, and Xfce, which are all excellent lightweight window managers. I would recommend Xfce. It's lightweight and has a good amount of features. I didn't have any problems with Xfce on mine, but if you find it's too slow for your liking, try Window Maker.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that if you're really set on Enlightenment, there is a Slackware package for it at http://www.linuxpackages.net that you can download and install.

wel i have a round the same configuration and i user slackware 10 for me it's perfect but i have 160 mb ram but i don't have any video Card.

and as for enlightenmetn i followed this tut for installing enlightenment:
enlightenment tutorial on NiceLug

lodder

ahh, good news. thank you both

edit: i can't help but wonder if 32MB is going to be enough for Enlightenment. this is the only thing that has me worried now.

i think it's enough becuase enlightenment is a light with desktop so it would be going perfect

The video cash memory is the last of your worries. It's usually for textures/hi-rez stuff. You'll pull anything from just Term, to full-blown Gnome on it just fine. (Assuming you dont have hots for 3d screen savers)

What is the biggest pita is your memory. Linux+X eats memory like there's no tomorrow.

I have KDE 3.3.1 running on Pentium II 300Mhz, on nVidia Riva128 (pre TNT) vid card and 300Mb+ RAM with great results.

*"great results" - It runs everything including OOo at usable speed, except for DVD's and other encoded Movies.

Says who............right now I have the shisen-sho (tile game) on pause...........I'm playing some ogg music files, and typing this msg.............gkrellm show 85 megs of RAM in use, and NO swap..............

all this with a P3 850/w 32 meg video card running Slack 9.1 and KDE 3.14

And some people say KDE is a memory hog............D'oh

cranky that's a very good computer, so use whatever you want, of course, if you use a light wm (all except KDE or GNOME actually) it will be VERY fast, if you use one of the two exceptions it'll be good anyway

My grunt text-editing box is a PII 350 with 256 megs of RAM and only an 8 meg Intel i740 video card. It runs KDE all right. A couple years ago I had Libranet 2.0 on it and it ran OpenOffice.org adequately.

kde is not a memory eater.
I am running slack 10 with kde 3.3.1 on a celeron with 128MB RAM and some Sis video card. I can play movies and use KDE fine as long as i turn off most of the fancy effects that KDE comes with.

A 32MB video card is absolutely fine if all you are looking to do is the standard document editing, web surfing, e-mail checking type of activities. If you plan on running some serious games (like UT2004), then you might have an issue.

I just recently replaced my aunt's Windows PC with a PII-350 Mhz, 192 MB RAM, and a 8 MB video card and it runs Slack 10.0 with XFCE just perfectly. If anything, I'd say boost your RAM as much as you can afford to do and just leave the rest for now.

I also have a PII-233 Mhz with 192 MB of RAM running Slack 10.0 which when I run BlackBox only 30 MB of system memory is used for the whole thing (Linux + X + BlackBox).

Your system is more than capable of running Slack 10.0

My laptop is a PII 366mhz with 128megs ram and 2560Kb of Video Ram and I have Enlightenment as my default desktop. Nothing is slow on my laptop, all videos are smooth and I can do many things all at the same time and no slow downs. (I even re-compiled my kernel while watching the 640x480 trailer for Team America and it didn't skip once)

Enjoy and if you have questions about Enlightenment, this forum is the best source of info.

Uhh Well *cough* I can do everything at once

Hey.

I have Slackware 10 running on a k6-2 400 mHz with 256 mb ram and a geforce 2 mx 200. Gnome and Firefox is a bit slow but otherwise quite usable. Choosing a lighter wm would not doubt improve performance (as stated already by others). I cannot think of any reason why it would not be doable. As far as I know, Slackware is one of the better choises for older boxes (correct me if I'm wrong). In fact, in one of my first posts here (and I have not made many since) I asked which distro was best suited for the earlier mentioned hardware. Slackware was the distro I was recomended most, I believe. I chose Vector Linux, though (based on Slackware by the way) but eventually converted to Slackware. If choice is between those two (which it's most likely not), I'd recomend Salckware.

By the way, Blackbox is supposed to be a light weight wm. I have not used it myself yet but I have heard great things about it. I just might in a while. If you like eye candy, you'll find several themes at their site.

I hope you see the irony in this comment. Well I do anyway. Coming from a windows upbringing anything less than the latest is slow and already out of date by the time it hits the stores. I just find it hard to grasp that the latest release of an OS will work with an old computer such as mine. Guess it's time to shed the old mentality and get used to the Linux way. From now on I won't be throwing out old computer parts I can tell you that much.

Thanks for your help everyone.