Derek Byram wrote:
Hi all,If you like 8.0, then why not stick with it? It was a fine distro (as was 7.2, a definite high point in Mandrake's career). Do NOT install 8.1 - it was the distro from Hell (to be fair, this was not entirely Mandrake's fault - a number of key programs, such as supermount, were going through a bad period at that time). 8.2 is generally a good distro, though I had to downgrade the kernel to get the Internet to work.
Can someone please suggest which version of Mandrake should give me the best performance running the following hardware where the machine WILL have a GUI (I like them :) but for the most part will then mostly be running an ssh server sans GUI, through my router?
Intel P200 on an ASUS mobo, 64 Mb RAM, 2gb HDD, 2mb ATI graphics, some 10/100 ethernet card.
All the hardware seems to be standard enough to work with all versions that I have when used in other combinations. I can pick between Mandrake 8, 8.1 (download versions) and a purchased 8.2 (7 disk version).
I have to mention I have a soft spot for Version 8 as it was the first of any Linux distro that worked out of the box for me, (sound and internet) and has produced the best results on another machine (450 AMD 256 RAM), appearing to be more stable than the others but I value the opinions expressed here.
I anticipate it will involve something to do with which version of the kernel they are blessed with but other factors will be pointed out to me in the nicest way.
Any offererings gladly received for which I thank you in advance.
However, if you're worried about your low hardware spec, the main thing is not which distro you install, but what you choose to run. Don't use KDE - it's a great desktop environment, but it eats RAM and CPU cycles (as Oppenheimer might have said "I have become KDE, devourer of RAM"). Try something really light, like IceWM. Forget OpenOffice, unless you feel like making dinner while it loads - use LyX for writing and Gnumeric for spreadsheets.
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