I'm not certain on an actual distro that uses it, I'm sure someone else might be able to inform you, but my favorite lightweight desktop environment is Window Maker, I use it whenever I want to play resource intensive games on Linux.
Justin Gary wrote: > > --- In [email protected] > <mailto:LINUX_Newbies%40yahoogroups.com>, "gear_blaster_master" > <gear_blaster_mas...@...> wrote: > > > > My older box has an Asus motherboard, 800Hz Intel CPU, 512 RAM (can > > upgrade to 1GB if required) and 200GB of WD Hard Drive. > > > > I realize some of the newest distributions will not run for me, but > > what can I get away with? > > > My all-time topper was when I got a distribution called Morphix to run > full GUI on a 133MHz Pentium, with only 64MB or ram. > > 512MB is a good operating point, you can get a lot of distros to run > on that. You will want to avoid any distribution using the KDE4 > desktop, like OpenSuSE 10+, those are too graphics-heavy. If you want > to try something that isn't Gnome (like Ubuntu, LinuxMint, and others > are), go for KDE3.x (search for kdebase3 package in distrowatch.com). > > I'm using "PCLinuxOS 2007" on several machines and recommend that. If > you can find Mandriva Spring 2008, it's worth a try, but Mandriva > themselves have already buried it in favor of their KDE4-based 2009 > release, which you should avoid, as noted above. > > Or, you could go for something XFCE based. My current favorite > lightweight (XFCE) distro is zenwalk (dot org), I'm running it on a > box similar to yours (800MHz cpu, 384MB ram, 80GB HD). Puppy Linux is > another nice one. > > ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
