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| Thread ID: 27067 | 2002-11-12 23:13:00 | Linux Distro for P75 and P166 | Nigel Thomson (629) | Press F1 |
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| 98212 | 2002-11-12 23:13:00 | howdy I am looking for a suitable Distro for a P75 and P166 I need a graphical Desktop and an office suite I have looked at DeLi linux which is slackware based and seems to be pretty much what I want but are there other alternatives? thanks Nigel |
Nigel Thomson (629) | ||
| 98213 | 2002-11-12 23:51:00 | Debian. Depends on much memory you have though. | gibler (49) | ||
| 98214 | 2002-11-13 01:33:00 | Any distribution will do . :D They are all the same Linux . There are different installation scripts . There may be different settings for the kernel compilation . But they are all Linux . RedHat and Mandrake are the "friendliest" installations . Debian is intended more for people who like playing with operating systems . However, Mandrake requires Pentium processors, whereas RedHat doesn't insist . I don't know about the latest RedHat, but it seems to have a selection of kernels . . . and will even handle dual-processor machines . What will limit you is memory and disk . The later versions need at least 1 . 5 GB of disk, and to run the GUIs, the more memory the bettter . You will want at least 96 MB ram . There are older versions available . RedHat 6 . 2 will install on sma;ller machines, though you would need to compile the kernel to take advantage of the Pentium . But that's not a major operation . And you can install the "i386" version and it will run perfectly on a Pentium . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 98215 | 2002-11-13 08:36:00 | Knoppix requires at least 80 Megs RAM (Reccommended by the PC World CD.. I saw it in there somewhere). Any Pentium proccessor will do, it may take a bit longer the less RAM you've got, but try out Knoppix on them and see how you like it! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 98216 | 2002-11-13 08:38:00 | Mandrake 8.0/8.2 will run ok on a P166 with 64MB of ram although the office applications are a bit slow to load. | Dolby Digital (160) | ||
| 98217 | 2002-11-14 06:08:00 | XSolutions offer a version of Mandrake optimised for a 486 which would probably run quite nicely on a p75 - they're reasonably priced too :) Mike. |
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