AntiX is great! Forgot all about that one. It runs on old hardware (1997 era) just peachy, and does just as good on new silicon.
I didn't have the time to swap over a working system to it though. Walt On Sep 7, 2011 2:10 PM, "Curt Raymond" <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > AntiX is also a good lightweight, Mepis but lighter. > > A 2.4Ghz machine should run it adequately under most all circumstances. I even had it running well on an 800Mhz PII. > > -Curt > > --- On Wed, 9/7/11, Fmiser <fmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> From: Fmiser <fmi...@gmail.com> >> Subject: Re: [Linux] [MBZ] OT: Computer cpu swap and Linux >> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> Cc: "Linux Discussion List" <li...@okiebenz.com> >> Date: Wednesday, September 7, 2011, 1:38 PM >> > Gerry Archer wrote: >> >> > Parted out lightning struck Dell with 2.4Ghz Pentium >> > 4 Celeron cpu. Put that cpu in another Dell >> which had >> > a 1.4Ghz Pentium 4. Both cpu's have 400 >> fsb. The >> > Celeron has a 128K cache, and the Pentium 4 has >> > 256K L2 cache. Seems faster, but not >> sure. >> > >> > Want to use that desktop computer for Linux. >> > Damn Small Linux (DSL) met that description about >> > five years ago, but not sure about now. >> > Thanks, >> >> DSL and Puppy are the two that I know of that are super >> light. >> Both will do okay on Pentium I. You could probably >> get by with >> any major distribution if you install using XFCE as the >> session >> manager rather than KDE or Gnome. And use gnumeric >> and Abiword >> instead of OpenOffice, maybe use hv3 instead of >> Firefox. Etc. >> >> But if there is a fair amount of RAM, a Pentium 4 should >> provide >> a decent user experience. >> >> I'm cross posting to the Linux list - where the last post >> was >> end of June. >> >> -- Philip >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/linux_okiebenz.com >> > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
