Any OS, by itself will actually be reasonably fast. It's the apps that are slow.
I ran Gentoo Linux on my TP770 (233Mhz P1-MMX, 96MB Ram), because it allowed me to build only what I needed. I ran a stripped-down window manager (Fluxbox if I recall), did all file management from the command line (used rox-filer if I really wanted a graphical file manager), did word processing in LyX (because OpenOffice took more ram than I had, so had to load from swap every time I clicked a menu), did as much web browsing as possible in Links2 (has a graphical mode in addition to the text-only mode) and Konqueror for sites that didn't work (Opera was heavier). Ask me off-list if you want help building such a configuration. On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Simon Royal <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi. > I am running Xubuntu 9.10 on my TP600 at present and am quite happy with > it. It is a bit sluggish, but that is to be expected on a 300Mhz machine. > Before anyone accuses me of flitting from one OS to another this is just > speculation at present. > Which OS would best suit this machine? Xubuntu is great but it doesn't > really fly. I would like an OS that rips along. There is a sticker on this > machine that says 'built for Windows 98'. > It is a ThinkPad 600. A 300Mhz Pentium 2, maxxed to 288MB of RAM and with a > 60GB hard drive. I originally had Windows 2000 and Windows XP running on > this when I had 160MB of RAM and both ran terribly, but I have recently > added a further 128MB RAM. > I only use it for web browsing, writing emails via webmail, storing and > syncing my photos via DropBox. > My additional hardware is pretty limited. I have a number of USB flash > drives, a USB 2.0 PCMCIA card, a USB bluetooth dongle and a couple of > wireless cards (a Buffalo WLI-CB-G54A and Edimax 7108 PCG) both of which > work under Win 98SE upwards. > The main pieces of software I would use would be a web browser (either IE > or Firefox), Skype, DropBox and Office. > > As you can see, both hardware and software wise I don't require/use a lot. > I just would like to make this a nice and fast web machine. > Simon Royal > > --- Catch me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal or Skype: > Simon-Royal > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Got a cool Hotmail story? Tell us now > http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
