--- Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 03 March 2004 01:40 pm, H.J.Bathoorn > wrote: > > On Wednesday 03 March 2004 11:31 pm, rhein wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I'm looking for a light version of linux to run > on a > > > old MMX200 with 64 MB of ram. Is vectorlinux a > good > > > choice for a beginner? Thank you > > > Christophe > > > > Absolutely, but on those specs a Slaclware9.1 > would run > > acceptably (maybe even faster) too. > > Without the heavy weight Windowmanagers like KDE > and > > Gnome even Mandracke9.1 will run OK providing > there's > > not too many unnecessary services running. > > > > Good luck, > > HarM > Slackware is a better choice. Debian....Any version > of Linux > can run fine on the hardware you said, but yes, > Slackware > would be much better. Or Free BSD. If you can > install > Slackware, you can install Free BSD, they look the > same and > act almost exactly a like. > -- > __________________________________________________ > We Are 138 > http://www.suse.com > http://www.slackware.org > http://www.bsd.org > http://www.daemonnews.org/ > http://www.cannibalholocaust.net > http://www.misfits.com > http://www.onethirtyeight.com >
If you are an adventures type, you may want to consider Gentoo, or even a Linux From Scratch build, as you can pick and chose what to install, and have it optimized for your machine. ===== Mike (a.k.a. AWEV) RLU 347983 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you’re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com
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