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sdeinert

11-07-2002, 01:54 PM

Ok,

I have an old Compaq Presario, model 1622, and it is a bit slow. 32 MB ram, Pentium 2, about 250 MhZ, 3 GB HD. I had Mandrake 8.2 on it, dualbooted with Win98, ran pretty slow... so I formatted, and put RedHat 8.0 on it in the hopes that it would speed up a little, but RH is a bit loaded. My question is, which is the most bare bones Linux Distribution (Commercial or Independent). A friend of mine thinks Debian might be the answer, but I'm not quite sure.

Any help would be great....

Hayl

11-07-2002, 01:56 PM

slack or deb

sarah31

11-07-2002, 02:05 PM

there are lots and lots of barebones systems out there that will work on this computer. just visit distrowatch.com for the rundown on loads of distros.

gwenavirre

11-07-2002, 03:20 PM

whatever distro you go with 32MB is a bit limiting you may not want to run Gnome or KDE but a lighter windows manager.

WilliamS

11-07-2002, 03:27 PM

Might try Lycoris www.lycoris.com easy install

jglen490

11-07-2002, 04:04 PM

Regardless of distro (yes some can be loaded more fat than others) Linux likes RAM. On my P120 laptop, when I went form 40MB to 72MB it was like night and day. Use the distro that you have and bump up to 64MB RAM.

You may want to go with a lighter GUI or a lightweight window manager such as IceWM, Xfce, or one of the *box wm's. But just pumping up the RAM will work wonders.