I have a pretty old pc - celeron 266 and 64 mb RAM. After searching a bit I came to the conclusion that slackware 10 would be the only modern distro which would run trouble free on my pc. Is there any better alternative?
If you use a desktop environment (KDE/GNOME), you will find your PC still sluggish to use. It will be better if you use some light weight window manager like fluxbox, windowmaker, fvwm2 . It would be a good idea to increase your RAM to 128 or 256 mb at least.
Have a look at Building A Lo-Fat Linux Desktop (http://linuxgazette.net/106/murray.html ) which contains some very good suggestions .
Though it may seem heretical, I would even suggest that you use the command line programs for your day to day needs. For example
- browsing -> w3m (can display images, has support for frames, might not support JS)
- mails -> mutt (never used it, but it has a band of religious followers)
- text processing -> TeX, LaTeX (hard to learn, but one of the most excellent and bug free programs I have ever used)
- file browsing -> midnight commander (a clone of norton commander, very flexible to use and easy to learn)
- all things in one place -> emacs (emacs is an operating system in itself. it has a web browser, a mail client, a file browser and interfaces quite well with other external program)
Lastly, please do not hijack a thread. If you have a look at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi/6675 , you will find that your email appears under the thread "Sharing A Windows Printer On LINUX Using SAMBA".
To start a new topic of discussion (commonly called a `thread'), compose a new message. Hit the "Write new message" button (or whatever button your client uses). Type in the address of the mailing list as the To address. This is the only way to actually start a new thread.
Always start a new thread instead of taking an already ongoing one, changing the subject line and posting it again. The subject line is only loosely related to the threading. Every mail message has a message-id. When you "reply" or "followup" to a message, you client is supposed to put a References header with the message-id of the message you are replying to.
If you use an existing thread, the result is that your question is buried below unrelated questions when looking at the mailing list in a threaded way. This is known as `Hijacking threads'. It causes information to be lost and you'll be less likely to get an answer.
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