Am Fr, den 29.10.2004 schrieb Erylon Hines um 4:02: > On Thursday 28 October 2004 11:16 am, emir limar wrote: > | Hi people, > | I installed MDK 10.1 to my HP Vectra Pentium 133 MH. 64 RAM, 1.2 Gig Box. > | Problem is i am not able to see any program except IceWM and some useles > | 3-4 programs what ever i choose i end up the same programs. I used to > | instlaled 9.2 it was working fine with KDE and GNOME now even it doesn't > | work with 10.1 , even i install 9.2 again , now it goes to IceWM again. > | Both 9.2 and 10.1 end up with the IceWM. I manually install additional > | packages thru Mandrake Center but non of the programs seen from IceWm or > | starts from comand line. Anyone have any clue, suggestions.... > | Otherwise i have to throw away the box. It is just filling my very limited > | space. thx > | emin > > WOW! If you could get that machine to work well with 9.2 and KDE you were > doing fantastic! I have an old 233 with 256 RAM that was just "o.k." with > KDE and 9.2. Xfce ran fine, though. I now have SuSe 9.1 (2.6 kernel) on > that machine and it is really tedious to use with KDE. For an old box like > yours I would probably use "damn small linux". It is a run-from-disk distro > based on Knoppix (debian) and rather short on features at only 50M on a CD. > I installed it to HD on a 233 laptop I have (the install takes up 325 megs of > my disk--total--and I have lots of room to spare) and then added some stuff I > wanted for browsing--Opera, for one. I'll bet it will work o.k. with your > 133--the default desktop is Fluxbox which is fine, once you get used to it. > If you insist on Mandrake, I would try xfce (urpmi xfce), then Fluxbox if that > doesn't work. The last Mandrake release with KDE for that machine was > probably 7.2. Each release after that has required progressively more system > resources, and the only way around it is more memory and smaller-footprint > desktops.
I have to agree with Erylon and would recommend xfce for such a system running on mdk. It seems to be much more stable than icewm. With icewm I had the problem that I could only open one program at a time where as with xfce I can open and use OO, firefox and sylpheed at the same time. It's "a bit" slower than other machines but for simple tasks like email or surfing it's ok. With 64 MB however, I wouldn't run it on X and use pine and lynx instead or update the system to 96+ MB for x. Alex
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