Hi,
I need a little help in deciding what distribution i should install on
a PC with the following configuration, so that normal day to day work
is possible ie. surfing, word processing etc. -
Pentium 166MMX
64MB RAM
S3 Trio UV+ Graphics Card
Samtron 428PT/PTL Monitor
Sound Blaster 16 sound card
6.4 GB Hard Disk
CD Drive 32X

I had tried installing RedHat 8.0 but the system was so slow that
nothing productive could be done on it( I did try disabling most of
the unnecessary services).
Another problem is that X Server does not recognize the graphics card.
Which Window Manager would you suggest that is most complete without
too much load.

Thanks.

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rajattyagi12@yahoo.com wrote:
Doesn't matter, almost any distro should work, you should just not think
about running KDE3/Gnome with only 64 MB RAM, fvwm2 should be blazing fast.

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rajattyagi12@yahoo.com wrote:
Slackware-9.1 though you may need to install XFree86-3.3.6 from
the pasture directory with that video card but I could be wrong.
Also I wouldn't use GNOME or KDE with a Pentium 166MHz they might
be a little slow, but XFCE or some of the others would do a nice
job on that box.

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Slackware 9.1.0 Kernel 2.4.22 i686 (GCC) 3.2.3
Uptime: 42 min, 1 user, load average: 0.10, 0.06, 0.06

rajattyagi12@yahoo.com wrote:

.... the resources for this box are pretty slim, by today's
standards. i do, infact, have a box like this on the network
that i use as a test box. i've successfully installed a
number of modern distros (although i have 98mb ram). the
best is gentoo(.org), since it's compiled for the box.
slackware would be another good choice.

read this article: "The Ultimate (but Small) Linux Box!"
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6169
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rajattyagi12@yahoo.com on Friday 03 October 2003 11:11 wrote:

Check out Vector Linux. www.vectorlinux.com It is designed for older
systems with less resources. It is a very small distro. Full
install is only 450MB. Only IceWM or xfce for windowing on the
download version, but either is all you'll need. Very fast.
Slackware based -- 2.4.20 kernel. It comes with two versions of
XFree86 for backwards compatibility: 4.something-or-other and 3.3.6,
IIRC. You'll most likely need to use 3.3.6. I installed Vector on a
300MHz AMD machine with an S3 Trio card, and 4.something didn't work
100% -- mouse wouldn't work, but 3.3.6 worked fine.

Needless to say, there is minimal software included on the download
version. Just enough for a usable desktop. The CD version has lots
more.


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Stefan Patric <tootek2@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<ksmfb.12396$Rd4.4336@fed1read07>...
In reply to this post I suggest using slackware v9.1. Slackware runs
fine on slower systems. Just don't kde, gnome, or enlightenment. I
suggest windowmaker.

<rajattyagi12@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:d30cd304.0310030311.3ca406f2@posting.google.c om...
I would say that the amount of RAM is the bottleneck on your system. Perhaps
some distributions are _slightly_ better than others, but the best thing you
can do is to buy more RAM. I tried to run only mozilla and X on a 64MB
machine once, but the endless swapping almost gave me a gastric ulcer. With
128MB it works fine even though the cpu is slow.

Regards
Martin