[Techtalk] A distro for old machines...

[Bud]

Thanks everyone for the good insight and direction. My objective is something 
that can replace win95/win98 which usually runs well on 32 MB ram and usable 
as a desktop.

 Anyway time to start some experimentation on 200Mhz old machine. I'll keep 
you guys posted on how things go...and ask more questions along the way :)

Bud

On Saturday 29 November 2003 4:12 am, Ricky Buchanan wrote:
> Bud wrote:
> >   I am interested in trying to build a desktop distro that will work on
> > old computers. By old I mean it should work on a P MMX 200Mhz+ with 32MB
> > ram and a 4MB video card.
>
> This is an "old" machine? I can't keep up with moore anymore ... I only
> recently upgraded from a machine like this, my main
> web/mail/ftp/mailinglist server runs on a pentium 120!  It does have a
> fair bit of RAM.  Increasing RAM on a lowend machine will almost always
> give you MUCH better performance.
>
> If you could combine 2 computers you describe, to get one with 64mb
> instead of 2 with 32 each, you'd probably get better overall
> performance, IIRC.  Dunno if I'm correct, necessarily, but it's a
> general rule.
>
>
> Regards,
> Ricky

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