On Friday 20 May 2005 04:24 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: | >>To be absolutely honest - I have only just conected the second PC, and | >>haven't decided what linux to use on it for now. At the moment | >>installing LE if the old hardware will do it. I would quite like to | >>have printing going as can print output of issues etc. | >>Eventually I'd like to have mini network with two PCs to be able to | >>access internet, and to just be able to *do* it. I have a perfectly | >>good OS working and doing everything I want - I simply don't understand | >>why I need to experiment :-)
I've found that the modern Debian-based distros work the best on older hardware (haven't used Slack--heard it is a pain to set up). I have a P233 with 256 megs running Knoppix 3.8 (hard disk install), and it works quite well and is even very useable with KDE--but no speed demon. Xfce is my choice for that machine. I tried various Mandrake/Mandriva versions, SuSe, RH, Ubuntu Warty, Overclockix, 3.4/3.6/3.8 Knoppix and Debian Woody w/2.4 and 2.6 kernels on that machine. Every one of the Deb-based distros worked well, even with 2.6 kernels. The 9.x Mandrakes and 2.4 kernels were useable, but not very, with KDE, and SuSe was impossibly slow with the 2.6 kernel. Ditto for the 2.6 kernel Mandriva versions. Just my experience, for what it's worth. e
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