[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [Sheflug] recommended 'distro' for K6 166
I second this. If you have the time to set it up you could try fvwm as the window manager. That can be made to look exactly like windows xp.
On 17 Mar 2004 12:03:32 +0000
Seb James <seb [at] hypercubesystems.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 11:09, Chris Johnson wrote:
> > I've got a stand alone PC that I need to be able to do normal office/student
> > study type things on. Its a AMD k6- 166 with 82MB RAM and a 3GB hard disk.
> > It will need to run OpenOffice.org, web browsing, email and printing and be
> > easy for a windows user to migrate to (its for my sister at University and
> > her current OS is a bit of a drain on the PC and it keeps suffering from
> > virus infections too.)
> > I have a feeling KDE or GNOME will stretch it too much. Does anyone have
> > any recommendations as to an alternative to these that is lightweight (in
> > requirements) but still quite feature rich and window$ like? And to a
> > lightweight distribution that I can use this with?
> >
>
> Chris, I have done an install of Gentoo Linux on a PII 266 with 96 MB of
> RAM. It took a looong time to compile everything, but resulted in a very
> usable machine. I used icewm rather than kde, but installed gnome
> applications such as abiword which ran very well indeed. OpenOffice also
> worked well.
>
> I've just done another installation on a K5 100MHz machine with 32MB of
> RAM. I'm not going to ask this one to run Openoffice due to the RAM, but
> it runs X just fine. It took a looooooong time to compile Gentoo - in
> particular glibc took over 48 hours, cos it was running programs that
> were larger than the amount of ram available. The hdd had steam coming
> out of it!
>
> Why use Gentoo and compile? To get maximum optimization of all your
> apps, using compiler flags such as "-march=i686 -mmmx -m3dnow" and so on
> and so forth. It does make a difference, especially on slower machines.
> The Gentoo website has an excellent installation guide and it's not too
> hard, even if "compile" has a scary ring to it! With Gentoo, it's guided
> compilation.
>
> regards,
>
> Seb
> --
> Managing Director, Educational Systems, Hypercube Systems Ltd
> Providing Open Source ICT solutions for schools.
> Tel: 0845 458 0277 Web: www.hypercubesystems.co.uk
> Mob: 07900 958964 Email: seb [at] hypercubesystems.co.uk
>
> ___________________________________________________________________
>
> Sheffield Linux User's Group -
> http://www.sheflug.co.uk/mailfaq.html
>
> GNU the choice of a complete generation.
___________________________________________________________________
Sheffield Linux User's Group -
http://www.sheflug.co.uk/mailfaq.html
GNU the choice of a complete generation.