On Sunday 29 December 2002 01:06, Robin Turner wrote: > Derek Byram wrote: > > Hi all,
<SNIP> > > Any offererings gladly received for which I thank you in advance. > > 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. > > 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. > > Sir Robin Thank you kindly brave knight. Great start, you have confirmed my suspicions about 8.1. 8 seemed real "complete". I am only asking because I currently run the ssh server on my main machine, an Athlon XP1800 on SuSE 8. A bit of overkill you might think and I agree. -- Derek Byram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Registered Linux user 264346
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